Example sentences of "had [vb pp] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 2 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 3 | Artemis was quite sure she had committed no such breach of nursery discipline , but even so was careful not to laugh out loud again . |
| 4 | Gerald Barry had seen no such weapons but had observed single interrupters " being struck on the head , in the stomach , and all over the body with a complete absence of restraint " . |
| 5 | The fiction was that Nate had instructed Mueller to arrange to get Sanders down there quickly , when he had done no such thing . |
| 6 | She had done no such thing . |
| 7 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 8 | In Britain , from around 1800 , traders in towns had done no more than seek to control the sale of goods and services on promises to pay later by combining into Trade Protection Societies , which had grouped into a National Association of Trade Protection Societies ( NATPS ) . |
| 9 | Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment . |
| 10 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 11 | Fortunately , it was obvious that Luke had done no more than drop off a suitcase . |
| 12 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 13 | President Joseph Momoh was quoted on April 6 as stating that the army had done no more than pursue rebels across the frontier . |
| 14 | Defending the report , Japan 's Minister of International Trade and Industry , Kozo Watanabe , stated that his department had done no more than publish the " bare facts " , and that henceforth Japan would " say what it has to say and do what it has to do in international affairs " . |
| 15 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 16 | Bevin and Marshall agreed on 4 December 1947 that the two governments had done no more than receive broadly similar recommendations from their advisers . |
| 17 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 19 | Dunbar had said no more than the truth , the archers could do it all . |
| 20 | Tommaso 's gaze flickered over her , appraisingly , and he had made no such reckoning of Caterina , as Davide grasped . |
| 21 | Byles J. thought that he had not because he had made no such request . |
| 22 | He had made no more than half a dozen strides towards the heart of the encampment when Owen called him back suddenly , in a sharp , changed voice ; and when he looked back in surprise : |
| 23 | In answer to a prosecution question , he stated that he did hear indistinct gunfire , but had thought no more of it . |
| 24 | He had thought no more about their excursion until Heather 's disappearance had recalled it to his mind — and been followed by Harry 's visit . |
| 25 | Although he had had no such thoughts in mind , he realized that Cindy might well be in a position to do Emma some good , just as Emma was undoubtedly doing Cindy some . |
| 26 | Margaret and the Prime Minister had had no such trouble . |
| 27 | Hodson admitted that , prior to giving evidence to the Committee , he had had no fewer than twenty meetings with Francis Place , the radical tailor of Charing Cross Road . |
| 28 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 29 | Lili had had no more babies . |
| 30 | Since that time , his career had had no more problems . |