Example sentences of "was nothing the " in BNC.

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1 It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens .
2 There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive .
3 There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland .
4 There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place .
5 Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it .
6 There was nothing the matter with his features .
7 However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house .
8 This was nothing the same .
9 He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it .
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