Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 2 | Cutbacks in the budget have done nothing to curb chronic overstaffing : any official above teaboy needs a full supporting cast . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 4 | As the Prime Minister has done nothing to change that policy in his first year , is not Majorism simply Thatcherism without the courage of her convictions ? |
| 5 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 6 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 7 | There is no denying that the present government has done something to influence both sides of this equation . |
| 8 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 9 | Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence ? |
| 10 | He had had nothing to eat that day at all and had been up quite a lot of the night and now felt a bit dozy , but it did n't mean that he was ill . |
| 11 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Now , you have n't had anything to eat all day — except for that biscuit- and you must be starving . ’ |
| 13 | Apart from those couple of sandwiches , she had n't had anything to eat all day . |
| 14 | Well you should 've done cos I thought you were going to cos I thought yeah we 've got , have n't got anything to do this afternoon |
| 15 | And it was coming on then , but I did n't think anything of it , cos I , I had n't had , had n't got anything to eat all day |
| 16 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 17 | It makes me so angry — any one of them could have found something to rest that child on , but no , they all stand there in case they get blood on their hands and watch the child suffer — ’ |