Example sentences of "nothing at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 2 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 3 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 4 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 5 | This person claims to be a great detective and yet he has detected nothing , nothing at all . |
| 6 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 7 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 8 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 9 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he was a most intelligent ad gifted ma , even , so to say , a scholar , though , as far as his scholarship was concerned , well , in a word , his scholarship did n't amount to much , to nothing at all I think . |
| 11 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 12 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 13 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 14 | But he said nothing at all . |
| 15 | Nothing at all . |
| 16 | Nothing at all but three things |
| 17 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 18 | Levine contends that these tracts , even as they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity , especially gender identity as prescribed by God and signified through dress difference , display a deep anxiety that identity is not fixed ; that , underneath , the self is really nothing at all ( ‘ Men in Women 's Clothing ’ , 126 and 128 ) . |
| 19 | It was as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 20 | They 'd dress up then and go out to dinner to some restaurant , laughing and talking together as if nothing at all had happened . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 22 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 23 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing , nothing at all . |
| 25 | Nothing , nothing at all . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing at all . ’ |
| 27 | But Charles knew very little and nothing at all about management , business and finance . |
| 28 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 29 | ‘ He means nothing at all , ’ his mother had intervened , ‘ except that you 've upset him . |
| 30 | Her mind was capable of thinking of nothing at all . |