No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

No sooner did they hear of Dan's injury than both Gran and Matilda went into immediate action.

No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.

No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.

No sooner had Betsey come out of the ring than Mrs. Long walked into the Working Competition with Ch. Cadet or Noranda, another home-bred product, and won!!

No sooner was it in the hands of the public than preparations were made to issue derivative ( pirated ) editions.

No sooner did news of his death reach the north than his son was proclaimed King Charles II in Edinburgh.

No sooner had the treaty been ratified in May 1213 than Pandolfo announced to Philip that he would have to abandon his expedition against John, since to attack a faithful vassal of the Holy See would constitute a mortal sin.

No sooner had he been appointed than he found himself being hung on the power struggle between his juniors.

No sooner does she establish herself in polite society than someone turns up who knows her disreputable history and spreads rumours ; Steyne himself hounds her out of Rome.

No sooner was the statement broadcast, however, were tens of thousands of Arabs pouring into the streets in mass demonstrations throughout Egypt and across the Arab world rejecting his resignation.

No sooner had the Wonderful Radio London Top 40 Show started, when the Texas Night Train folded.

No sooner had this been achieved than it was lost again.

No sooner had she done so, than Gwydion revealed the truth.

No sooner had he parked his car than two gunmen emerged from a van that had been following him and fired a hail of more than twenty bullets into Murphy, killing him instantly.

" No sooner had I read this great work than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.

No sooner does a fish bite off a piece of skin, than the grandmother takes it out of the fish's mouth and puts it in her basket.

No sooner had Shiva granted this, than Bhasmasura ran after the god, threatening to turn him to ashes.

No sooner had I settled down when they informed me that we'd be out for the evening, visiting Glenn Fleishman, who had some strange event happening that night.

No sooner was a pipeline completed than Tombstone's silver mines struck water.

No sooner had Persia recovered from the famine, than war broke out with the Huns of the north.

No sooner had The Byrds ' tour ended than Chris Hillman persuaded the owners of the Whisky a Go Go to give the band an audition.

No sooner had they left it than the cavern closed of its own accord, so that no man has found it since ( Jellinek, Bet ha-Midrash, vi.

No sooner was this complete than the Queen's vanguard, commanded by Lord Hamilton, began its advance through the village.

No sooner had the Scots entered the marsh at the foot of the hill than the first arrows began to descend.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

No good can come of contemplating the sad, inevitable fact that once youth has passed `` a worse and worse time still succeeds the former ''.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.

No one has sponsored more progressive and important legislation than has Sam Rayburn.

No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

No good way to evaluate teaching ability has yet been discovered, although some institutions use inventory sheets for a list of criteria.

No manufacturer has taken the initiative in pointing out the costs involved.

No generalization of these results to spaces of more than three dimensions has so far been found possible.

No general installation should be made until a model installation has been proved and its maximum capability determined.

`` No one has come.

Kournikova's forte has been doubles, where she has at times been the World No. 1 player.

No neuron ever has more than one axon ; however in invertebrates such as insects or leeches the axon sometimes consists of several regions that function more or less independently of each other.

No one has lived in these houses since the time of the Famine, however the families that moved to Dooagh and their descendants, continued to use the village as a ' booley village '.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.

* No person who has an office under the monarch, or receives a pension from the Crown, can be a Member of Parliament ( MP ).

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.

No show with a cappella orchestrations has ever run on Broadway.