Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the fact that the breakfast was bad and the service worse and that one or two police constables appeared to be taking their holidays in the hotel , they had picked up nothing of interest . |
| 2 | ‘ And , having known him two months , ’ the prosecution was going on , ‘ you found out nothing about his background ? ’ |
| 3 | He had not really noticed before but the boy weighed almost nothing in his arms . |
| 4 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 5 | The technology of printing now has virtually nothing in common with the wooden presses and lead type of 15th-century pioneers like Johannes Gutenberg or Nicolas Jensen . |
| 6 | He is quite unable to understand that the political settlement of 1688 had little in common with what went before , that the post-1832 settlement had little in common with the 1688 settlement and that the political situation today has virtually nothing in common with the post-1832 settlement . |
| 7 | I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus , since the early Christian sources show no interest in either , are moreover fragmentary and often legendary . |
| 8 | I try to explain that Rainbow Rosenbloom has almost nothing but a few genes in common with Anya 's faithless Gittel . |
| 9 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 10 | ’ A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying , ‘ Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg , but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface . ’ |
| 11 | Cælum contains absolutely nothing of note . |
| 12 | This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all . |
| 13 | So let so nothing in reality has changed , has it ? |
| 14 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 15 | After a week of fighting , Mr Hussein 's war machine has done virtually nothing but hunker down and wait to be attacked . |
| 16 | We have done almost nothing since then . ’ |
| 17 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 18 | It was an unhappy and tense discussion and can have done absolutely nothing for Geoffrey Howe 's morale as he prepared for the afternoon . |
| 19 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 20 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 21 | You know , I 've done absolutely nothing with my life full stop ! |
| 22 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 23 | We never turned up nothing like this . |
| 24 | The first peculiarity is over the crossing , which has a stumpy octagonal tower and pointed roof with , on the inside , a dome built in a style similar to that of Sainte-Croix in Oloron , that is , with the ribs of the vault forming an eight-pointed star ( without artificial lighting you can see almost nothing of this decoration , and the artificial lighting comes expensive at L'Hôpital-Saint-Blaise ; you need ten-franc coins to work it ) . |
| 25 | I know that many of you feel you 've had almost nothing of value from the current tutorials and er erm which is rather unfortunate . |
| 26 | She 's got virtually nothing on … dressed only in her shift as a quite uncharecteristically humble donor figure begging to come into heaven , please |
| 27 | Communication is a sharing , when you are speaking you can be an ‘ aid to hearing ’ which costs absolutely nothing but which can be a priceless asset . |
| 28 | Hugh was scathing about any form of non-structuralist criticism , particularly if it came from a feminist — I should have thought you and he would have had absolutely nothing in common . |
| 29 | Colin Montgomerie lost a little ground with a 73 , Jose-Maria Olazabal made up nothing with a 72 while David Feherty fell away with a 77 . |
| 30 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |