Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] nothing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 2 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 3 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 4 | You 've done nothing in five years , nothing since that Miss Gracie left . ’ |
| 5 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 7 | We , we 've got the how you can help section here , but we 've got nothing at all about what the charity does and how it does it , yes we need some appropriate words for getting the idea that they 're helping children . |
| 8 | You 've got nothing at all ? |
| 9 | Look , mate , I 've got nothing against these Indians , Chinese , Pakistanis , Blacks you name 'em I 've got nothing against them — apart from them being here . |
| 10 | She had well I 've got nothing like that . |
| 11 | Oh there 's no end I 've had nothing but flipping drink ! |
| 12 | I 've touched nothing in those drawers . |
| 13 | I think your mother has a big effect on your self-image , and I 've learned nothing but bad habits from my own mother . |
| 14 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 15 | Tories in Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd 's constituency have given nothing to Conservative party funds over the past year . |
| 16 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 17 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 18 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 19 | ( Please note I have said nothing about female homosexuality since some of the above arguments do not apply , so will lesbians please save themselves a stamp ) . |
| 20 | The two friends I went fishing with have been at work today but they have said nothing about any practical joke . |
| 21 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 22 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 23 | I 'm tied to another organisation for guest speaking anyway , so IMG get nothing of that ’ . |
| 24 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 25 | Countless millions have suffered and died in order to satisfy the power lust of a handful of evil men and we have learned nothing except new ways of slaughtering our fellow men in yet more efficient and hideous ways . |