Example sentences of "not [art] [noun sg] [prep] sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 2 | There 's not a tune in sight . |
| 3 | Not a tractor in sight . |
| 4 | The South Africans were escorted through red traffic lights to their hotel by police motorcyclists and vehicles , but there was not a demonstrator in sight . |
| 5 | ‘ And not a porter in sight . |
| 6 | Green fields , a coppice of trees , and not a roof in sight . |
| 7 | When the multi-millionaire megastar from Moonee Ponds lifted the lid off her hush-hush new spoof game show — there was not a celebrity in sight . |
| 8 | This was open desert , and there was not a dune in sight and it was firm underfoot . |
| 9 | The night was dark and still , and there was not a soul in sight . |
| 10 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |
| 11 | You would n't see anybody walking round these big buildings and not a soul in sight . |
| 12 | There were a dozen or so cars parked near the entrance , including the Marshal 's small van , but not a soul in sight . |
| 13 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 14 | I smelt fresh cigar smoke and I called out like you normally would to anybody there and no er reply so I searched all round the building , not a soul in sight but there was this distinct smell of cigar smoke and my colleague er Mr Martin he had an experience er a year or two after he joined us . |
| 15 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 16 | There are various types of head plumage , from thatch via greaseball to natural skin tone , but not a hat in sight . |
| 17 | You can read the actual old newspapers in the offices of the Oban Times , not a microfiche in sight . |
| 18 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 19 | ULSTER 'S soccer fanzine writers were lining up to put the boot in today — with not a typewriter in sight . |
| 20 | All WYSIWYG here in Quattro Pro 4 — not an add-in in sight . |
| 21 | There is no baby Jesus , no three wise men and not an angel in sight on the cards sent out by these famous names . |