Example sentences of "[vb past] nothing to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 2 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 3 | The dramatic political and diplomatic developments of 1988 — of more importance to the achievement of a substantive peace than anything else since 1967 — owed nothing to the peace process . |
| 4 | Taking all of these courts and their personnel , bailies , clerks and procurators-fiscal , a great landowner like the Duke of Montrose was able to oblige a considerable number of his friends with offices which owed nothing to the Government . |
| 5 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 6 | But the name meant nothing to the visitor ; obviously his fame had not penetrated the student community . |
| 7 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 8 | The alley opened out into a large square courtyard from which , on all sides , reared five-storey buildings , all in a state of dilapidation , and outside of each was a mound of filth and rubbish , some giving off a stench which left nothing to the imagination as from what it was derived . |
| 9 | Her black satin dress left nothing to the imagination , and neither did the way the man with her was gazing into her eyes . |
| 10 | They said nothing to the family and no one else had noticed the men . |