Example sentences of "no [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sank to the ground at the base of the heap of pine-needles , relieved that there was no one around to witness my exhaustion and the miserable size of my load . |
| 2 | Being unable to swim and with no one around to rescue him , Daniel had drowned in the canal that evening . |
| 3 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 4 | I am often asked what if I had an accident or I collapsed and there was no one around to help . |
| 5 | And the first night I arrived there , there was no one even to greet me . |
| 6 | He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've a problem , and there 's no one here to give me a hand . |
| 8 | I have to go over to hand in my register now there 's no one here to take charge of it . ’ |
| 9 | If he neglected his physical body , there was no one here to reprimand him , for the whole community was woefully neglected . |
| 10 | Go and push a few notes on your own piano ; there 's no one here to wince at the sound you make these days . |
| 11 | Without you there 'd be no one not to kiss goodnight when we quarrel . |
| 12 | As there was at that time no one else to take up the cudgels nationally on their behalf this service was of great value to the deaf and dumb population , and is no doubt one explanation for the BDDA surviving its early difficult years . |
| 13 | He or she may choose to accept the load of small and troublesome issues and there may be no one else to take over certain tasks . |
| 14 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 15 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 16 | Now Bill Sweet was dead , there was no one else to put on the pressure . |
| 17 | ‘ I got no one else to turn to . |
| 18 | Her father died when she was a kid , as did her uncle , which meant that her grandfather who was as rich as Croesus had no one else to leave his ill-gotten gains to . |
| 19 | If he turned and walked away from them , they had no one else to go to for help , advice and healing . |
| 20 | It is fair to conclude , therefore , that statutory services were provided to a much greater extent to those who have no one else to call upon within the household than to those who live with others . |
| 21 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
| 22 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 23 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 24 | There was no one else to do so . |
| 25 | ‘ If it 's not unethical — and there was no one else to do it , anyway — why have Celia and your grandmother kept it secret all these years ? |
| 26 | ‘ It does feel like that , ’ said Scarlet , wondering what she 'd do without Constance , since there was no one else to talk to . |
| 27 | We climbed into the back , already full of people perched atop a deep pile of cargo , and squeezed into a rear corner , hoping there was no one else to come . |
| 28 | No one else to please . ’ |
| 29 | In the same way , Celie too was all alone , she had no one to turn to but God as there was no one else to pay attention to her . |
| 30 | I do n't want no one else to look after him — I want to . |