Example sentences of "[vb pp] nothing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 2 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 3 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 4 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 7 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 10 | So far they have received nothing from the Government , little EC assistance and are running out of funds donated by individuals and industry . |
| 11 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He 'd added nothing since the night James came . |
| 14 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I assure you , Mr Tranter , that I have written nothing but the truth , ’ Catherine said quietly . |
| 18 | I warrant you 've seen nothing but the road between your horse 's ears for days . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furse had no personal experience of imperial administration , and until he began the series of journeys associated with his work of recruitment , had seen nothing of the empire apart from a brief visit to Ceylon . |
| 21 | She said well I have n't seen nothing since the baby been born . |
| 22 | I have n't heard anything on the radio , seen nothing in the press , nothing on the box . |
| 23 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 24 | It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before . |
| 25 | You say you have bestowed your gift of the secret of life on mankind , but in fact you have done nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's done nothing for the box . |
| 28 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |
| 29 | But , up until now , they have offered nothing for the budget or ‘ entry level ’ guitar market . |
| 30 | 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 . |