Example sentences of "be nothing [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once . |
| 2 | One problem which such an approach may pose is that there may be nothing left for special treatment . |
| 3 | because there 's nothing to go for . |
| 4 | You presumptuous monkey , she told him , there 's nothing to wait for , I 'm not going to marry you . |
| 5 | Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nothing left for you here . |
| 7 | There 's nothing left for you here , nothing but misery . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's nothing left for Hareton to inherit ! |
| 9 | There 's , there 's nothing left for anything other than to eat ! |
| 10 | And often there 's nothing to show for it at the end . |
| 11 | They lie there in cots , sometimes tied down , not crying because there 's nothing to cry for . |
| 12 | There is nothing to live for . |
| 13 | Turnover growth is nothing to pursue for itself . |
| 14 | For coach Giorgio Leoni 's men , there is nothing to play for but pride . |
| 15 | Sometimes it gets to me , I give so much time and energy to everyone else , that there is nothing left for me . |
| 16 | There is nothing left for it but to lie its head off until Polling Day is past … |
| 17 | When the decisions of all market participants dovetail completely , so that each plan correctly assumes the corresponding plans of the other participants and no possibility exists for any altered plans that would be simultaneously preferred by the relevant participants , there is nothing left for the entrepreneur to do . |
| 18 | After writing off an £819,000 investment in an unquoted company , there is nothing left for a dividend for the third year running . |
| 19 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |
| 20 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 21 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |
| 22 | There was nothing left for me now — nothing . |
| 23 | Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind . |
| 24 | She ate without comment but there was nothing left for the dogs . |
| 25 | I 'm we knew very well she was but there was nothing left for her you know . |
| 26 | There was nothing to rush for and nowhere to rush to . |
| 27 | And in the forest there was nothing to show for it . |