Example sentences of "nothing [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing especially to look out for ? ’ |
| 2 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 3 | But signs of a pick-up will do nothing soon to cut unemployment , now at the top of the economic agenda . |
| 4 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 5 | Japan 's plan to build ‘ fifth-generation ’ computers , which started the British debate , was formulated only after discussions with people representing many sectors of society who have nothing directly to do with computers . |
| 6 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 7 | They were concerned with variety of opinion , editorial freedom , partisan bias — values having nothing directly to do with economics and industry . |
| 8 | While the methods of structural linguistics seem to have some role to play in studying the structure of meaningful systems , they have nothing directly to offer the unravelling of meaning . |
| 9 | With nothing further to go on , Berret reluctantly let the wayward tinker go about his business . |
| 10 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 11 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
| 12 | historical , biographical , rhetorical , mythical , Freudian , jungian , existentialist , Marxist , structuralist , Christian-allegorical , ethical , exponential , linguistic , phenomenological , archetypal , you name it ; so that when each commentary was written there would be simply nothing further to say about the novel in question . |
| 13 | ‘ We have nothing further to say . |
| 14 | ‘ Go away , Ryan ; we have nothing further to say to each other . ’ |
| 15 | I have nothing further to say on the green pages . |
| 16 | If we 're not allowed to discuss the costs er associated with er electing a greater number of M E Ps to the er European parliament er and the boundaries associated with it , I have nothing further to say . |
| 17 | At the end of the two years purchasers can either trade it in for a new car , pay the final payment and keep the car , or hand the car back and have nothing further to pay . |
| 18 | Instead , he gambled on finding someone who could play the last card in the British deck — independence — and then , with nothing further to offer , keep sufficient control of the situation to extricate Britain from India with honour and possibly with glory . |
| 19 | I also agree and have nothing further to add . |
| 20 | I 've nothing further to add , thank you very much . |
| 21 | I referred earlier to article 104B , and I have nothing further to add . |
| 22 | ‘ I have nothing further to add . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Robbie has already beaten them in championship fights and owns a Lonsdale belt outright so he has nothing further to prove . |
| 24 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 25 | I I 've I 've only got one report that I went to erm a meeting of the youth club erm in December I think it was , we just had sort of general discussions , nothing really to report erm back on that . |
| 26 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |
| 27 | Erm , and all of which , in that case , seem to me completely and have nothing really to do with me . |
| 28 | There 's nothing really to say , is there ? ’ |
| 29 | In Graham 's case , however , we 'll have to wait and hope , although there 's nothing really to base that hope on . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing really to tell . ’ |