Example sentences of "nothing about it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steinberg knew nothing about it . |
| 2 | Usually her passion was an explosion of ecstasy , at a face , a voice , a mannerism ; usually she did nothing about it beyond engineering to spend time in The Presence . |
| 3 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 4 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 5 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 6 | How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it ? |
| 7 | The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) . |
| 8 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 9 | Nothing about it is taught at school and we are criticised abroad for not repenting of the war . ’ |
| 10 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 11 | ‘ You know nothing about it . ’ |
| 12 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 13 | If they did nothing about it , water would flow in through their gills , and other permeable parts of their surface , and they would swell up and die . |
| 14 | The King did nothing about it . |
| 15 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 16 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 17 | He swore it all happened so quickly , he could do nothing about it . |
| 18 | Of course she was aware , cognitively , that there was a life outside universities , but she knew nothing about it , nor did Charles , or her parents . |
| 19 | How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it ? |
| 20 | Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault . |
| 21 | They know nothing about it ( laughing ) … |
| 22 | To have to lie there in his coffin on Ingham 's counter and hear somebody like Tommy Drennan murder a good song like ‘ Slievenamon ’ and himself lying there and could do nothing about it ! |
| 23 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |
| 24 | It was a six-letter word and I knew absolutely nothing about it . |
| 25 | With me it was all too simple and evident , my behaviour — and I was a most law-abiding child — caused my parents pain , and as I could do nothing about it , certainly nothing to improve it , except to cease to exist , I grew more and more guilty . |
| 26 | ‘ Ye would n't know nothing about it ? ’ |
| 27 | It was as if their covenant was both to keep the problem alive and yet to ensure they did nothing about it . |
| 28 | ‘ New technology and computers — but at basic level for top management who know nothing about it but have to see an authority through a changeover ’ . |
| 29 | Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ? |
| 30 | Eva said nothing about it . |