Example sentences of "she [vb past] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met no open hostility . |
| 2 | She made no apparent effort to take it in . |
| 3 | Her eyelids flickered , but she made no other sign . |
| 4 | She made no backward glance to signify the presence of anyone else in the room . |
| 5 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 6 | Her eyepatch apart , she bore no obvious scars , but she had fought many battles , vanquished many foes . |
| 7 | We hear her first on these records in 1914 : just two items — the voice sharply etched — on Pathé , made in the year of her British début , when at London 's Drury Lane under Beecham she created no great impression as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 8 | She found no sexual pleasure in going to bed with strangers , but , in contrast with the rest of her week , she was comforted by the feeling of being thought desirable , of having someone 's arms around her , of warm cuddling beneath the quilt . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't let her trouble you , especially as I could tell she 'd no good news . ’ |
| 10 | She now turned her smile on Millie , but she received no answering smile , only a stare from what she thought were those very odd grey eyes . |
| 11 | She received no formal education , but was taught Italian , French , Greek , and Latin by an excellent governess . |
| 12 | She received no independent advice . |
| 13 | She received no independent advice . |
| 14 | Her eyes widened and for a moment she looked scared , but her model 's training stood her in good stead and she showed no other sign of what must have been a shock . |
| 15 | She had no quarrel with Christianity or the church , and she expressed no particular doubts except that Christian things generally were rather unreal to her . |
| 16 | The subject of Ireland was banned in her house ; she employed no Irish servants , imported no Irish goods — although she used Irish girls in her brothels — allowed no Irish books or papers into her house . |
| 17 | It took time for her to find out , but she needed no other evidence than her eyes to tell her Ferdinando had lost interest in the pretty maid . |
| 18 | But a few instants later , she needed no other support than the strong arms that seized her and gathered her to a broad chest , the lips in her hair uttering the words that sent the blood rushing through her veins . |
| 19 | She took no new live-in lover , and as far as she was aware , neither did Charles . |
| 20 | This remark she delivered with the immense complacency of the wise virgin ; Clara could not help but feel that having men in only when things went wrong was not as wildly eccentric as her mother supposed , but as she knew no other way , no other world , she could not be sure . |
| 21 | When he died , she felt no real grief . |
| 22 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |
| 23 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 24 | The physical contact was pleasing enough , but she felt no sexual arousal . |
| 25 | She put no special inflection into the question but eased it out naturally . |
| 26 | Theda 's lips whitened , but she gave no other sign of the distress this label caused her . |
| 27 | She gave no outward signs of her problems when she went on a walkabout . |
| 28 | The Colonel could tell that the noise was distracting Amanda from her pamphlet , though she gave no outward sign . |
| 29 | She had no manipulative intention . |
| 30 | Somehow she had no real doubts as to whether Mr Tom O'Neill was genuine . |