Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel nothing but the cold , that seemed to have filled every pore of her body . |
| 2 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 3 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 4 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 5 | She was frantic to know more but her own ambulance was involved in an accident and she could do nothing until the end of her duty to learn whether or not Chris was involved . |
| 6 | She could read nothing from the parchment of his face . |
| 7 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 8 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 9 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 10 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 11 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 12 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
| 13 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 14 | Defries was sure he was shouting , although she could hear nothing but the thud of shells and the tinnitus inside her head . |
| 15 | She would argue about moving Anna before she had fully recovered — if she recovered — but she would put nothing in the way of Anna 's marriage to Nahum Plunkett . |
| 16 | When Bassanio asked the doctor , a dressed up Portia , how he could pay her , she answered that she would take nothing but the ring . |