Example sentences of "[conj] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 2 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 3 | When Ronald Gregory , the ex-chief constable of West Yorkshire , said little or nothing new about the ‘ Yorkshire Ripper case ’ in a series of newspaper articles , he was castigated in Police Review ( 1 July 1983 ) and they republished a 1979 photograph of him when ‘ his loyalty was unquestioned ’ . |
| 4 | Still no purchase and it was beginning to look like all or nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 6 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 7 | But even for those who had little or nothing to hide , their sensitivity to the research led , in a minority of cases , to a reluctance to engage in conversation , the resort to silence being something which Westley noted in his research in the United States ( 1970 , p. viii ) . |
| 8 | He thought little or nothing about law , or jurisdiction , or faculty . |
| 9 | A right to ‘ life ’ may be philosophically opaque ; and right to ‘ liberty ’ may mean anything or nothing ; but a right to the ‘ pursuit of happiness ’ is unmistakably individualist , a claim upon society for the absence or minimum of restraint upon oneself , counterbalanced by the renunciation of restraint upon others . |
| 10 | There ai n't no chairs or carpet or nothing , so if I go and see him I have to sit on the floor . |
| 11 | I do n't understand it or nothing , but I like listening anyhow . |
| 12 | Ibrahim never goes out , not even to the shops or nothing . |
| 13 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 14 | It 's not his job or nothing , but he likes doing stuff in the garden , and most days he 's there . |
| 15 | I can see the light under Marie 's door , but there 's no noise or nothing . |
| 16 | She ai n't crying or nothing , but her face is horrible to look at . |
| 17 | She do n't seem to notice — she do n't say thank you or nothing . |
| 18 | I reckon if Marie was awake , she 'd like the company — you know , so she would n't be afraid or nothing . |
| 19 | She do n't help out or nothing — she just sits on the bench , or wanders round looking at things , but I think she likes it . |
| 20 | She was n't a proper girlfriend or nothing — we was just mates like . |
| 21 | I never brushed it or nothing like I do to Marie 's . |
| 22 | She ai n't got a boyfriend or nothing — not a proper one , but still a lot of boys come and see her . |
| 23 | They were n't new or nothing , but they looked OK . |
| 24 | I do n't want to be sick or nothing . |
| 25 | I did n't really want to marry her or nothing , but I thought , you know , that we was friends like . |
| 26 | It 's all pretty confusing cos Colin ai n't a cat or nothing , so why do n't he use the toilet ? |
| 27 | They ai n't got no lights on or nothing like that , but they 're real nice all the same . |
| 28 | I was n't with Marie or nothing — I was all on my own , like . |
| 29 | I do n't take off my coat or nothing — I just sit down . |
| 30 | I was brave and did n't cry or nothing , but I was real sorry to see her go . |