Example sentences of "it [verb] nothing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 2 | It has nothing at all to do with ‘ being pretty ’ . |
| 3 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 4 | He says it has nothing at all to do with underfunding . |
| 5 | It contains nothing of real interest , and I have included it in the chart with Vela . |
| 6 | When I think of the hours of weeding it saves , it appears nothing but beautiful to me . |
| 7 | So when the Trust acquired this house it looked nothing like this at all , er it was all there was hardly any timber showing , the only timber showing was what you can actually see now is obviously old timber . |
| 8 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 9 | Now both the West Oxfordshire District Council and the Chipping Norton Parish Council erm voted overwhelmingly against this proposed scheme , and the fact that they 've put these recommendations to the County Council erm can I ask the three County Councillors present erm it means nothing at all from your point of view ? |
| 10 | Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered , it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory . |
| 11 | It gives nothing to those who have no choice . ’ |
| 12 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 13 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 14 | It had nothing in common , therefore , with the much publicised Western idea of imposing a form of neutrality on Afghanistan . |
| 15 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |
| 16 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 17 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |