Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 4 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know nothing about any Sheffield Wednesday interest , ’ said Quinn . |
| 6 | ‘ But you know nothing of any kidnap ? ’ |
| 7 | I know nothing of any of this . ’ |
| 8 | I know nothing of any of this . |
| 9 | ‘ You know nothing of any woman in his life ? ’ |
| 10 | Police know nothing of any accident . |
| 11 | If the law is evidently partial and unjust , then it will mask nothing , legitimize nothing , contribute nothing to any class 's hegemony ’ ( Thompson , 1977 : 262–3 ) . |