Example sentences of "[vb infin] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth . |
| 3 | A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted . |
| 4 | Possibly because the French Federation may actually know nothing about the game . |
| 5 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 6 | When his own practice begins he will find that his clerk has arranged conferences for him , and before the conference he will often know nothing of the questions that are likely to be put to him . |
| 7 | In fifty minutes or so , you will have an extraordinary experience : you will know nothing of the baglady to begin with , but you will know everything you need to know by the end . |
| 8 | You need send nothing with the child Ellen as he will need quite different clothes here and when I have seen and measured him I will make them myself . |
| 9 | What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services . |
| 10 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 11 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 13 | She could feel nothing but the cold , that seemed to have filled every pore of her body . |
| 14 | Often you will feel nothing from the waist down . |
| 15 | It will do nothing of the kind . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | 'I 'll do nothing of the sort , Aunt Nessy , ’ the young parson said now . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort , ’ said her uncle firmly . |
| 19 | But Joe knew that Ashdown would do nothing of the kind . |
| 20 | Both thorns are tolerant of pollution and are tough enough to grow in open , exposed seaside sites regularly raked over by salt-laden winds , although these of course will do nothing for the autumn display . |
| 21 | A party that will attempt nothing for the unemployed at home will do nothing for the poor and starving abroad . |
| 22 | Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players . |
| 23 | Making it hard for directors to talk to outsiders will also do nothing for the cause of good management . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 25 | One farmer claimed he would do nothing to the buildings until his son had been confirmed in the tenancy . |
| 26 | If not , I will do nothing with the information you give me . |
| 27 | But England could do nothing with the advantage because of the ferocity and speed with which the Irish forwards hammered whichever luckless Englishman was left to tidy up the tap . |
| 28 | you have to cos they ca n't do nothing with the bits , they give you all the bits |
| 29 | Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it . |
| 30 | The Bristol University graduate , the third-choice keeper until last night , did not put a hand , or foot , wrong and he could do nothing about the Spartak goals . |