Example sentences of "[conj] nothing [modal v] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scream begins deep inside me , a scream coming through a big , empty place , deep as the Colca Canyon , arid as the Nazca Desert , where nothing can give it comfort . |
| 2 | You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it . |
| 3 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
| 4 | Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job ! |
| 5 | So long as the possibility remained that nothing would happen they felt no compulsion to educate themselves . |
| 6 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 7 | And once you 'd made your decision , you dug your feet in and nothing would make you change your mind . |
| 8 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 9 | I did n't want to at all , but nothing would make her change her mind . |
| 10 | He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest . |
| 11 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 12 | All night long she had lain awake , worrying about what had happened and wishing with the benefit of hindsight that she had handled it better , but nothing could change what had gone on . |
| 13 | You 'll carry your humiliation — since nothing can stop you seeing it so — in quietness and with a good grace , as other men have had to learn to do before you . |