Example sentences of "have [verb] nothing in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 2 | Mr Lamb said : ‘ The council has put nothing in the budget to celebrate the anniversary yet Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle has just got £100,000 from the county council to mark its centenary . |
| 3 | From his own mouth they understood that , regardless of ethnic or regional or age identity , they would have to surrender nothing in order to gain a great deal : that alliance need not produce merger or submergence , that even racist habits of mind became beside the point — you could vote for ‘ the nigger ’ not because you wanted a Black man in your family but because you thought he might save your family farm . |
| 4 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 5 | You 've done nothing in five years , nothing since that Miss Gracie left . ’ |
| 6 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
| 7 | He had seen nothing in her lifestyle and her actions which led him to believe that she was then or wished again to become a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 8 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 10 | But she herself had offered nothing in exchange . |
| 11 | But I 've got nothing in my pocket . ’ |
| 12 | No of course of you ca n't because I 've got nothing in it . |
| 13 | Shame of the Killer oh no I do n't think we 'll do that er look through the Sun see if there 's anything interesting erm in there I 've got nothing in the Ewbank . |
| 14 | Oh bloody hell , I give you I might as well not be playing now cos I 've I 've got nothing in me hand . |
| 15 | I 've got nothing in our house . |
| 16 | I 've got nothing in my ears ! |
| 17 | I 've got nothing in my hand ! |
| 18 | Do n't talk rubbish we 've got nothing in the . |
| 19 | Guy Stair Sainty , an Old Master dealer who had sold nothing in any previous Art Show , sold seven pictures the first day , and is reported to have sold at least one painting in the high six figure range . |
| 20 | Later that year All-Star released The Jungle and a reviewer assured readers that the producing company had spared nothing in order to ensure that ‘ this picturization ’ would be equal to the novel . |
| 21 | I 've touched nothing in those drawers . |
| 22 | summer house , yeah , yeah , and he 's got a patio outside , did n't , it 's a only a patio it 's nothing , it 's not covered in or anything but there 's steps up to it and that and , and that 's it , he 's got nothing in his garden , it 's lawn and |
| 23 | And Sue said she 's got nothing in view apart from that and she said to her you must have alternatives , she 's not applied to anybody or enquired about anything |
| 24 | according towards the under revelation he talks about how these , these dumb idols and these pieces of gold have got nothing in them and that 'd be way in which the , the ones would be caught out , because of these gold or whatever have got nothing in them you see . |
| 25 | according towards the under revelation he talks about how these , these dumb idols and these pieces of gold have got nothing in them and that 'd be way in which the , the ones would be caught out , because of these gold or whatever have got nothing in them you see . |
| 26 | It is noteworthy that the Situationists have produced nothing in the way of new projects for these texts , nor for the exhibition . |
| 27 | My Lords , I have found nothing in Lawrence which affects my view of the present appeal . |
| 28 | Jesus once told his disciples : ‘ So far you have asked nothing in my name . |
| 29 | But in her tributes to Colette , Middlemarch 's Rosamund , Baudelaire 's Black Venus , Lizzie Borden , Viv ( ‘ Spend , Spend , Spend ’ ) Nicholson and chorus girls elsewhere , she shows she knew the strategies of female outlaws have lacked nothing in resourcefulness or invention . |