Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a kind of genius , Godolphin had once remarked when talking about Bloxham ( he liked to report on the absurdities of the Society , particularly when he was in his cups ) to look so dissipated and have nothing to regret for it . |
| 2 | now we are down that far , so I did everything so I 've nothing to do for them this morning , just sit there |
| 3 | Turnover growth is nothing to pursue for itself . |
| 4 | His method is straightforward enough : examining what he takes to be the central claims and assumptions of Conservative political philosophy , he proceeds to dismantle them one by one and , having demonstrated to his satisfaction that no Conservative tenet can withstand analytical criticism , declares that ‘ Conservatism … has , in the end , nothing to say for itself ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got nothing to show for what I 've won over the years , ’ a distraught Florrie said . |
| 6 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 7 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 8 | THE cracking of Salman Rushdie is the saddest outcome of his two years in hiding : an apparently forced recantation , and nothing to show for it . |
| 9 | And in the forest there was nothing to show for it . |
| 10 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 11 | And often there 's nothing to show for it at the end . |
| 12 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 13 | This Project Eden of yours : five years and nothing to show for it . |
| 14 | But after two months and $4000 and still nothing to show for it , he was getting a little hacked off at Condor Television . |
| 15 | Nothing to show for it ! |
| 16 | Eventually , the Cypriot king dispensed with our services and we had nothing to show for it but our clothes , horses , armour , and the wounds of battle . |
| 17 | but nothing to show for it |
| 18 | GUIL : We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us , with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke , and a presumption that once our eyes watered . |
| 19 | She was busy , making , while Edward and I ballooned through the intellectual stratosphere with nothing to show for our efforts but an increase of paper . |
| 20 | He wants us to believe that the ‘ system ’ is responsible for the fact that , at year 's end , he has nothing to show for his effort apart from the diary , a self-indulgent television film and debts from an aborted project . |