Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] nothing of " in BNC.

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1 Schellenberg said cautiously , ‘ So the Führer knows nothing of the affair ? ’
2 The truck had nothing of consequence in it .
3 The editor knew nothing of the story of Boyd 's promotion , about to be featured in the financial section , and she said firmly that it was Henry she wanted .
4 But , if the universe were to crush him , man would still be more noble than that which killed him , because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him ; the universe knows nothing of this .
5 Apart from these , the desk held nothing of interest .
6 It was immediately clear that the CRA knew nothing of Derry .
7 But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred .
8 But the dog knows nothing of rights and entitlements .
9 The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture .
10 because the verderers ought not and are not able to enroll anything in their rolls except a presentment of the foresters , and the foresters presented nothing of the matters aforesaid .
11 Our forebears were much more clever : they had a secret manner of communication that the invaders knew nothing of .
12 It was enemy to the world , yet the world knew nothing of it !
13 The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse .
14 The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families .
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