Example sentences of "we [vb base] nothing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 2 | Here , as at Liberi , he was happy , and we hear nothing of any initiative on his part to bring his exile to an end or to settle the issue — chiefly his frustrated desire to hold a council — which had precipitated his exile . |
| 3 | In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it . |
| 4 | Then again , as to the repairs : it may be that the original lease from the ground landlord contained covenants compelling repairs to be made by the lessee ; but we know nothing of such a lease or such covenants . |
| 5 | ‘ I have never met him and we know nothing of each other ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You have no idea , ’ said Healey , ‘ what it was like before you came into the committee , The prime minister was always demanding active intervention early on , with this crazy desire to go there and take things over , that we should side with the Roman Catholics and the Civil Rights movement against the government and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , though we know nothing at all about it . ’ |
| 7 | We know nothing at all about the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 8 | ‘ We get nothing like this at the hospital . ’ |
| 9 | We attempt nothing in this school , and even if I 've bitten off more than we can chew here , it 's better to try — ’ |
| 10 | But we 've nothing like this , yet … " |
| 11 | And we 've nothing in common . ’ |
| 12 | Well it 's up to the managers but I agree with Stansted four times a day , I think we 're losing a lot of traffic because we have nothing between seven in the morning and three o'clock in the afternoon |
| 13 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 14 | ‘ Your architecture reflects the history too , you have things like Roman walls and roads , we have nothing like that , ’ she added . |
| 15 | Personally I think it should be restricted to about four weeks and get more exhibitions in there for wider variety and also there 's a number of er travelling exhibitions around the country that come down North er from up North down to the South to show around here that you can book these any time you want er I talked to somebody organised an exhibition in London and they are quite willing to come to Harlow you book us and we have nothing like this at all . |
| 16 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 17 | Our minds are different ; we have nothing in common . |
| 18 | ‘ I realize we have nothing in common , ’ she told him then . |
| 19 | ‘ We have nothing in common , and in temperament we 're poles apart . |
| 20 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 21 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |
| 22 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |