Example sentences of "nothing he [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed on in the room but there was nothing he could do but withdraw . |
| 2 | There was nothing he could say , nothing he could do . |
| 3 | There was nothing he could do about it . |
| 4 | She had seemed so smitten , he assumed there was nothing he could do that would really offend her . |
| 5 | There was nothing he could do . |
| 6 | There was nothing he could do — it was saved or not . |
| 7 | There was nothing he could do , no way of getting a message to Caspar at the US Embassy . |
| 8 | There was nothing he could do to save George Vicente Brown . |
| 9 | He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse … |
| 10 | Yet despite being the most powerful man in the world , in command of some of the most deadly and sophisticated weaponry ever designed , there seemed to be nothing he could do . |
| 11 | Nothing he could do or say would move this stalwart protector of civic rectitude from his ordained path . |
| 12 | After all , there was nothing he could do to help Maidstone now . |
| 13 | Burt made two more fine saves to deny Wells and Daynes , but there was nothing he could do to stop ‘ Mill 's third after 70 minutes . |
| 14 | He knew he was doomed and there was nothing he could do about it . |
| 15 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 16 | And almost nothing he could do , about Parker , his affections ; he felt the mouth slobber his belly , his thighs , and the head , thick with bone that he might have punched a cannonball . |
| 17 | Parker too , he had heard the men and there was nothing he could do . |
| 18 | And nothing he could do . |
| 19 | If so , there was nothing he could do for the moment . |
| 20 | She had joined forces with her shiftless family : they were ranged against him , and there was nothing he could do . |
| 21 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 22 | But there was nothing he could do . |
| 23 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 24 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 25 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |
| 26 | There was nothing he could do for her now or in the future . |
| 27 | The doctor had been sent for immediately she collapsed , but there was nothing he could do to save her . |
| 28 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 29 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 30 | There was nothing he could do anyway . |