Example sentences of "nothing [adv] [prep] them [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 | ‘ 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |