Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given her no help throughout the night but it did not lessen her love . |
| 2 | In her experience , rigid and unloving church-going had given her no comfort , no sustenance . |
| 3 | He had given her no money but he did feed both of them , and this was difficult enough on his grant . |
| 4 | The detective agency she had approached had given her no results . |
| 5 | Despite his apparent interest he had given her no clue as to whether his future plans might include her . |
| 6 | Telling Luke had given her no satisfaction ; there was no feeling of well-being or sweet revenge , just a cold , forlorn emptiness , where once there had been hope . |
| 7 | Issuing an imperative ultimatum , which had given her no room for manoeuvre , and with which he must have known she could n't possibly have agreed , he had abruptly and swiftly left the country . |
| 8 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 9 | The seating plan had given me no view at all of my now-giggling pals , but the great bonus of being next to Patricia Hutchinson , and opposite the Principal , who is most gracious , and does n't miss a trick . |
| 10 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 11 | And our hero in his turn , felt despondent and fearful , for his little grey mentor had given him no instructions for this eventuality . |
| 12 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 13 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
| 14 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 15 | And was that why God had given him no son or heir ? |
| 16 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 17 | The Seven had given them no real choice : they could be Han or they could be nothing . |
| 18 | People had done him no harm , the Dasses , the Abigails . |
| 19 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 20 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 21 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 22 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 23 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 24 | The boy genius had been singularly unforthcoming and had told her no more regarding his revolutionary schemes . |
| 25 | The only previous controlled trial of social work help for depression ( Corney , 1981 ) had found it no better than treatment-as-usual from the GP . |
| 26 | But the Dallam trousseau had brought her no further orders but the brown satin dress which , since it had not been worn yet in Frizingley or anywhere else , had given no one the opportunity to enquire the name of its maker . |
| 27 | Mr McCloy had left them no address . |
| 28 | However , Laura 's appetite for life had left them no choice but to go ahead with a second major transplant . |
| 29 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 30 | But she had left him no alternative . |