Example sentences of "but [prep] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 2 | Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs . |
| 3 | Obviously some people make better interviewers than others , but with training no normal person who is reasonably able to carry on a conversation should find it impossible to undertake interviews . |
| 4 | But in requiring no reduction at all the STV is itself arbitrary . |
| 5 | But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ … |
| 6 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 7 | I have angina which is very unpleasant but I can move about more easily since losing a bit of weight and I used to suffer every night with heartburn but since having no fat I can honestly say I have n't suffered at all : … . |