Example sentences of "[verb] nothing [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 2 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 3 | But my superior self made nothing of that . |
| 4 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 5 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 6 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 7 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 8 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 9 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 10 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 11 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 12 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 13 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 14 | But Beethoven constructed page after page using nothing but this rhythmic motif . |
| 15 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 16 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 17 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 18 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 19 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 20 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 21 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 22 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 23 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |
| 24 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 25 | He added : ‘ We can have DSS men drive to deliver claims forms to hippie itinerants contributing nothing to this country . |
| 26 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 27 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 28 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 29 | Yet the accounts of the explorers Armand and Michaela Menise , who travelled the land but a season earlier , say nothing of such an edifice . |
| 30 | ‘ I beg you , say nothing of this to anyone . ’ |