Example sentences of "[vb past] nothing [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my superior self made nothing of that . |
| 2 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 3 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 9 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 10 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 11 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 12 | Lee used nothing but this disc to carve the piece with an angle grinder , and he describes some of the effects the tool can achieve . |
| 13 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 14 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 15 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 16 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 17 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 18 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard nothing at all , it was purely accidental . |
| 20 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 21 | She heard nothing at all . |
| 22 | ‘ We heard nothing of that kind , ’ I said . |
| 23 | And Clarke said : ‘ I heard nothing about this supposed realignment until well after Black Wednesday . ’ |
| 24 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
| 25 | The unexpected shock of this letter produced in Coleridge a ‘ waking Night-mair of Spirits ’ , and brought a sudden realization of the true state of his feelings for Sara : he felt nothing at all . |
| 26 | Apart from a superficial , tactile pleasantness , I felt nothing at all . |
| 27 | She felt nothing at all . |
| 28 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 29 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 30 | ‘ Love , Leo , ’ meant nothing at all , she tried to convince herself . |