Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 2 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
| 3 | She was alone in the world and owned nothing but the clothes in which she stood , a small attaché case filled with important things and a brown paper carrier bag containing shoes , stockings , and two crystal goblets carefully wrapped in a pair of white cotton knickers . |
| 4 | Jason saw and heard nothing during the night and raised the alarm when he went to tell his parents that he was unable to wake Matthew . |
| 5 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 6 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 7 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 8 | He circled the house , looking in , and saw nothing but the bits and pieces of ordinary living . |
| 9 | She faced out to sea and saw nothing but the impression of Fernando 's tortured features before her misty eyes . |
| 10 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 11 | ‘ Ted is not local , ’ he told Tamar , ‘ and knew nothing of the danger of that marsh . |
| 12 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 13 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 14 | She was a Scots Presbyterian from Edinburgh and knew nothing about the theatre , but just knew I was going to do it . |
| 15 | But the appointed attendants snivelled by day and snored by night , and understood nothing of the pharmacopoeia and its uses , until Ariel , strained taut by her predicament , became impatient with them . |
| 16 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 17 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 18 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 19 | Only the youngest brother , Goiko , kept his word and said nothing of the matter to his wife . |
| 20 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 21 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 22 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 23 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 24 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |
| 25 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 26 | The highway development survey commissioned for Greater London in 1936 , and carried out by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edward Lutyens , addressed the problem of the flow of commercial traffic in London , but said nothing about the reduction of central area congestion nor about the relation between traffic circulation , land use or environmental design . |