Example sentences of "nothing [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 2 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 3 | There was nothing out of the ordinary here , just the usual chairs and trays of instruments and contraptions of tubes and clamps and wires . |
| 4 | But they are nothing out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 5 | JAMES CLEMENTS , a jovial rotund Englishman who runs the Sek Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people , could barely contain his satisfaction when telling reporters that nothing out of the ordinary happened when camp inmates heard news of the first deportations from Hong Kong . |
| 6 | He was quite an average sort of pupil , nothing out of the ordinary , and I certainly did n't expect him to become what he is today . ’ |
| 7 | He glanced at Catherine but she had obviously noticed nothing out of the way . |
| 8 | Nothing to that , nothing out of the ordinary , and the flowers were nastily coloured . |
| 9 | Weeping females were nothing out of the ordinary for him . |
| 10 | He searched the scattered trees that fringed the forest in case an injured rider had struggled to cover , but there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen . |
| 11 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 12 | This kind of thing is nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 13 | The RAC said morning rush-hour traffic on the A12 between Great Yarmouth and London was ‘ busy but nothing out of the ordinary ’ . |
| 14 | Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case . |
| 15 | But the world of 1806 was to Captain Marryat what the world of 1935 is to us , at this moment , a middling sort of place , where there is nothing out of the way in a sailor with a pigtail or in a bumboat woman volleying hoarse English . |
| 16 | Hanging leaders were nothing out of the ordinary , and the Old Thunderer even confessed itself vexed by the ‘ overmagnanimous spirit of British law , which always presumes a man innocent until he is proven guilty ’ . |
| 17 | She could see nothing out of the window to show there had been a fire . |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing out of the ordinary , then . |
| 20 | But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . |
| 21 | To her it was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 22 | There was nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 23 | He 'd seen nothing out of the way . |
| 24 | He 's seen nothing out of the way . |
| 25 | She could not believe it , not because she was not used to getting flowers from men [ she and her charm could make men act on impulse ] , but she felt she had done nothing out of the ordinary to merit it . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing out of the ordinary , I hope . ’ |
| 27 | There 's nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 28 | There had been nothing out of the ordinary about that morning , they said , nothing . |
| 29 | So what happened in LA last April , causing $6 billion of damage , prompting 1,500 civil cases against a city already burdened with a budget deficit of $120 million was really nothing out of the ordinary ? |
| 30 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |