Example sentences of "no [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have no one to run to … . |
| 2 | One of the commonest problems of bereavement is that of feeling isolated and alone and having no one to turn to . |
| 3 | Just quiet , controlled anger that the children should have been so arbitrarily removed to places where they had nothing loved or familiar , and no one to turn to . |
| 4 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 5 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 6 | How sad that Puddephat 's widow should have no one to turn to at a time like this . |
| 7 | As Blanche realises that she has no one to turn to she is forced to return to her own world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ai n't got no one to look at it . |
| 10 | Well she , like I say next year , if they 're not paying double time she 's gon na get no one to work is she ? |
| 11 | The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact . |
| 12 | She owed it to the town , and she owed it to the memory of Frank Williams , her father , who 'd had no one to fight for him when he 'd needed it most . |
| 13 | After awhile it was nice being so far away from home , no one to moan at me . |
| 14 | Especially when there 's no one to hold onto when we just stop . |
| 15 | There 's no one to help I hear you sob |
| 16 | Once out of the office she had all the time in the world and no one to help fill it . |
| 17 | He has no one to play ball with and tosses his ball against the wall in a most despondent fashion . |
| 18 | He was an only child who had learned to read at three and quickly began giving characters to the numbers in arithmetic because he had no one to play with . |
| 19 | But there may be no one to play on it . |
| 20 | But he 's got no one to blame but himself . |
| 21 | And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful . |
| 22 | In summing up the band and its line-up changes , the new album and his move to California , Lemmy quotes a line from Motorhead 's last ballad : ‘ Everything changes , it all stays the same , everyone guilty but no one to blame … ’ |
| 23 | For there is no one to blame above him . |
| 24 | There was no one to blame but himself . |
| 25 | ‘ I was forced to face the fact that I was living with a woman I actually disliked and I had no one to blame but myself . |
| 26 | This horrid feeling of being completely alone is illustrated rather tragically by Tolstoy right near the end , when she sees a joke ( about Tyukin , a hairdresser ) and has no one to share it with at all . |
| 27 | ‘ He was a highly decorated ace and no one to date has done his aircraft . |
| 28 | The interesting , though not necessarily plausible , feature of this result is that firms know that when the price falls below the critical level this is due to a random shock , because they know it pays no one to cheat , but nevertheless they must still go into the punishment phase to enforce the collusive agreement . |
| 29 | So you 're not taking no one to school ? |
| 30 | Her mummy said that the old woman , Mrs. Zealand , was just a lonely old soul who had no one to love but her cat , and no one to love her , but to all the children she was ‘ the witch ’ and only the most daring boys ventured near her cottage , from the chimney of which it was reported green and red smoke sometimes rose , showing that the old crone was brewing spells inside . |