Example sentences of "[vb past] nothing of [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture .
2 ‘ We heard nothing of that kind , ’ I said .
3 I thought nothing of that incident until , maybe a year later , there it was installed and detailed in my mind .
4 And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love .
5 I never saw nothing of that Miss Baird , only Mr Forbes standing there like he says , and Jessie right beside him . ’
6 But she knew nothing of these things .
7 Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on .
8 Others maintained that , even if he knew nothing of these crimes , he was morally responsible in that he had contributed substantially to the general climate which allowed members of his organization to believe that such acts were justified in order to destabilize the government of Terence O'Neill .
9 My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) .
10 He knew nothing of any advance further to the west near Mons.
11 Christina knew nothing of this decision until she over-heard peter Thomas , the duty manager , chatting to the food and beverage executive later that morning .
12 All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses .
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