Example sentences of "nothing [adv] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing .
2 There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were .
3 There was nothing any of them could do .
4 There was nothing any of them could do .
5 Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do .
6 And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now .
7 ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it .
8 But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it .
9 Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin .
10 But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it .
11 There 's almost nothing either of us can say that ca n't be taken the wrong way , with a bit of imagination .
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