Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the boiling midday sun , the Scots could make nothing of five minutes of first-half possession and conceded tries to Pasikale ( 2 ) and Silolota , the latter converting two . |
| 2 | He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors . |
| 3 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 4 | Doctors could find nothing wrong , and sent them home . |
| 5 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |