Example sentences of "had [vb pp] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four days , Looking Glass led the band lazily north , and Joseph noted : ‘ We had heard nothing of General Howard , or Gibbon , or Sturgis . |
| 2 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 3 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 4 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 5 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 6 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 7 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 8 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 9 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 10 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 11 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 12 | During the shelling and mortaring I had heard nothing from Sid 's trench . |
| 13 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 14 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 15 | Seven weeks and five days since that cataclysmic day when Svend had interrupted their lovemaking , and she had heard nothing from him . |
| 16 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 17 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | If there was one thing sure about it , it was that Isambard had abated nothing of his purpose , and if he had halted his experiment in terrorisation short of the act , it was not from any impulse of pity , but the result of a calculated probability that these methods would not get him what he wanted . |
| 19 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 20 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |
| 21 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 22 | Furse had no personal experience of imperial administration , and until he began the series of journeys associated with his work of recruitment , had seen nothing of the empire apart from a brief visit to Ceylon . |
| 23 | We had seen nothing of Coventry nor were we due to . |
| 24 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 25 | They had seen nothing of Gus since he had withdrawn , she suspected with reluctance , after delivering her and her luggage at Paviour 's house . |
| 26 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 27 | Naturally , despite being an early riser , if yesterday was anything to go by , he was still snoring his head off , she explained away why she had seen nothing of him . |
| 28 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 29 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 30 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |