Example sentences of "[conj] nothing [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I had eaten little or nothing most of the day .
2 It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 .
3 The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby .
4 ‘ Some fools consider that nothing apart from the body exists , because movement arises from the body .
5 It will be evident that nothing parallel to the stage which is reached in the woman 's life can take place in men , and the phrase is meaningless .
6 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 .
7 But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered .
8 Andrew loved her , and nothing else in the whole world mattered to her as much as that .
9 But nothing else about the meeting was .
10 The RAC said morning rush-hour traffic on the A12 between Great Yarmouth and London was ‘ busy but nothing out of the ordinary ’ .
11 Rostand wrote other great successes also , though nothing quite on the memorable scale of Cyrano .
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