Example sentences of "nothing you can do " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thanks , pet , but there 's nothing you can do .
2 There 's nothing you can do about it , ’ I can hear some of you thinking .
3 These crags are already equipped , and there 's nothing you can do about it except enjoy the security .
4 It 's no good standing there , there 's nothing you can do to help . ’
5 There 's nothing you can do except stand up for your own and try and get Liam out before two o'clock .
6 There 's nothing you can do about it .
7 You know , you 're standing there and you get , ‘ What 're you doin' on the tube , I thought you ‘ ad loadsamoney , hur , hur. ’ and there 's nothing you can do . ’
8 I suppose because one is so helpless , there 's nothing you can do if anything goes wrong and it 's an awful long way down .
9 ‘ Well , sir , I fear there is nothing you can do except what is done already , which is to keep Mrs Browning calm and quiet and endeavour to feed her nourishing food to give her back some strength . ’
10 ‘ I know you 're sick , but there 's nothing you can do .
11 This was a critical group , among whom the most commonly heard comment was ‘ There 's nothing you can do to stop it ’ .
12 There is nothing you can do to change what has gone before and you will only cause yourself misery in the present if you concentrate on the gloomier aspects of the past .
13 If , on the other hand , your cat is one of the deaf ones , then there is nothing you can do to help it .
14 This organ works at its own rate and there 's almost nothing you can do to speed it up .
15 ‘ There 's nothing you can do for him , dear .
16 There 's nothing you can do about it . ’
17 There 's nothing you can do for them . ’
18 It 's a bit of a shame , really , because when we go back to those old multi-tracks , there 's nothing you can do in some cases .
19 But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry .
20 ‘ There 's nothing you can do here .
21 First I went to find the boy 's father and told him , ‘ There 's nothing you can do by staying here .
22 Besides , by asking me to make the decisions , you have implied that there 's nothing you can do here that my crew and I ca n't .
23 Small cracks can be stop drilled ( with a hand drill ) but there is nothing you can do with ‘ checking ’ except replacement .
24 If something outside your control is creating stress , forget it ; there 's nothing you can do about it .
25 Love which is unrequited : however much you love somebody there 's absolutely nothing you can do to " make " them love you .
26 The answer is once they 've clenched their teeth there 's nothing you can do about it , if their tongue is there I 'm afraid it 's just hard luck .
27 ‘ Then there 's really nothing you can do .
28 Incidentally if you misunderstand the motion and vote the wrong way there is nothing you can do about it later to correct the mistake — you have to live with it !
29 It did n't bother you then , and now there is nothing you can do , unless you want to broadcast to the world how your own judgement was sadly impaired .
30 ‘ There is nothing you can do , ’ I answered .
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