Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] nothing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I began to think that I was in an isolation hospital , until I realised that nothing at all happens after six o ‘ clock until breakfast next morning — not even a hot drink except in emergencies .
2 But she was emphatically not sorry for anything she 'd said , and she decided that nothing in the world would make her say she was .
3 She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric .
4 The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given .
5 Snodgrass , who had studied more sketches and impressions of the lost castles and palaces of Earth than he could remember , said he thought that nothing like Tara had ever existed anywhere in any world .
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