Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] nothing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 2 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 3 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 4 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 5 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 6 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 7 | In 1929 an architect was engaged and recommended doing nothing on the clubhouse . |
| 8 | In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists . |
| 9 | Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months . |
| 10 | Mr Lamb said : ‘ The council has put nothing in the budget to celebrate the anniversary yet Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle has just got £100,000 from the county council to mark its centenary . |
| 11 | But the national press has published nothing about the ambiguity surrounding the Milwaukee Project . |
| 12 | He 'd added nothing since the night James came . |
| 13 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 14 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 15 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 16 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
| 17 | To Pétain , for whom the future seemed to hold nothing but the obscurity of a colonel in retirement , the war and the dramatic failure of Plan XVII brought an unexpected opportunity to prove his ideas . |
| 18 | The leader of the Peronist congressional bloc , José Luis Manzano , claimed to know nothing of the payments which another Peronist deputy , Luis Saadi , described as " odious " as well as being illegal . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 20 | Terence would not mention his own name to anybody , he was confident of that , but he must be told to say nothing about the rest of it , to anyone . |
| 21 | The Chief Justice said that exclusion depended on all the circumstances : here the interview was conducted with propriety and the solicitor would have added nothing to the knowledge the detainee already had about his rights . |
| 22 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 23 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 24 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for the Lions , as the French persist in calling them , they will have had nothing like the preparation time of their opponents . |
| 26 | It was an exchange of literary gossip , having to do with the finances of writing , and the ‘ ghosting ’ of the Marlborough memoirs , and would have meant nothing to the dancing , chattering folk in Raasay House . |
| 27 | Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector 's imperfectly ironed surplice . |
| 28 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 29 | ‘ John Patten seems to have learnt nothing from the faults of his predecessors , ’ she said . |
| 30 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |