Example sentences of "nothing [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 2 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 3 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 4 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 5 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 7 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 8 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |
| 9 | But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it . |
| 10 | There 's almost nothing either of us can say that ca n't be taken the wrong way , with a bit of imagination . |