Example sentences of "nothing [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 2 | My mate goes five times a week and she ai n't had nothing for over twelve months . |
| 3 | Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain . |
| 4 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 5 | He said nothing for almost the whole of the twenty minutes , until he got up and carried his plate and cup to the sink and then said , as he left the room , ‘ I see . |
| 6 | Why , even when complaints are made , are they often inadequately dealt with , why is there no compensation and why do people sometimes hear nothing for far too long ? |
| 7 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 8 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 10 | Although useful information , this demonstrates nothing about either the quality or quantity of the services they provide . |
| 11 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 12 | That is , nothing about consciously . |
| 13 | Perhaps significantly , the Commission said nothing about more natural and lowland woodlands such as the New Forest or Epping Forest , where some pollution effects ( on lichens ) were already known . |
| 14 | They feel nothing about seriously mutilating someone for a trivial reason . |
| 15 | Poor Dave Bassett and his side were left with nothing after probably their best away performance of the season . |
| 16 | Well they had nothing after like . |
| 17 | Paul evidently knew nothing of so remarkable an event , for he never mentions it . |
| 18 | Some think nothing of virtually waving the keys to a room at the homeless , forcing a decision between the freezing streets , with your dog , or the cosy indoors — by yourself . |
| 19 | There ai n't no music playing or nothing like there usually is , just the sound of people talking and the clunking of the fruit machine . |
| 20 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |
| 21 | Overall , the south presents nothing like as bleak a picture for Congress as the north , at this stage of the campaign . |
| 22 | The opposition in England 's group was nothing like as strong as they faced in winning the HDM tournament in Holland before Christmas . |
| 23 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 24 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |
| 25 | Physics and chemistry , for example , seen to have had nothing like as much attention from the writers of fiction . |
| 26 | We predict that Mark will take nothing like as long to win his third Tour event . |
| 27 | The whole emphasis is different and the tackling is nothing like as good here . |
| 28 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 29 | Wolf Riders are not as powerful as Orc Boar Boyz but then again they are nothing like as expensive either at 9 points against 27 . |
| 30 | Moreover , even when ‘ means-testing ’ is a factor , for some of the benefits income levels are nothing like as low as many people imagine . |