Example sentences of "[verb] nothing [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 2 | We got nothing else to do . ’ |
| 3 | I got nothing else to do , and at least we 'll be able to feel we 're trying . ’ |
| 4 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 5 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
| 6 | ‘ Robbie has already beaten them in championship fights and owns a Lonsdale belt outright so he has nothing further to prove . |
| 7 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 8 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 9 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 10 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 11 | Because we 'd nothing else to do , I mean really . |
| 12 | But signs of a pick-up will do nothing soon to cut unemployment , now at the top of the economic agenda . |
| 13 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 14 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 15 | You know I mean can you think of anything more ridiculous with there you go they probably have n't got any other leg to stan I mean that 's no leg to stand on but they 've got nothing else to say really you know . |
| 16 | I 've got nothing else to say to you . |
| 17 | After all , I 've got nothing else to do . |
| 18 | Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that . |
| 19 | Have you got nothing else to do apart from squeaking chair ? |
| 20 | ‘ Only uneducated women who 've got nothing else to think about like show-off white weddings , ’ Nigel said . |
| 21 | I 've got nothing else to offer you . |
| 22 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 23 | ‘ We saw nothing today to convince us that we ca n't get out of North One at the first attempt , ’ he said . |
| 24 | None of this is to ignore Thompson 's evidence that some among the older Radicals saw that the Bill did nothing immediately to secure political democracy . |
| 25 | While the passing of time did nothing to lessen the Emperor 's appetites , it apparently did nothing either to improve his performance . |
| 26 | We simply had nothing else to say . |
| 27 | What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team . |
| 28 | The lasses carded wool or span whenever they had nothing else to do , just as at home . |
| 29 | She probably had nothing else to do . |
| 30 | It was my decision , mainly because I had nothing else to do . |