Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 2 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 3 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 4 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 5 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 6 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 7 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 8 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 9 | You all insist that I know nothing but nobody else can do this . |
| 10 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 11 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 12 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 15 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 16 | And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face . |
| 17 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 18 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 19 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 20 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 21 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 22 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 23 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 24 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 25 | He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it . |
| 26 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 27 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 28 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 29 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 30 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |