Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] nothing of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ted is not local , ’ he told Tamar , ‘ and knew nothing of the danger of that marsh . |
| 2 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 3 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 4 | But the appointed attendants snivelled by day and snored by night , and understood nothing of the pharmacopoeia and its uses , until Ariel , strained taut by her predicament , became impatient with them . |
| 5 | We were both strong healthy girls at the time , and thought nothing of the dream ; it was just a curiosity ; but she did in fact die two years later — very suddenly , very unexpectedly , of an infection . |
| 6 | Only the youngest brother , Goiko , kept his word and said nothing of the matter to his wife . |
| 7 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 8 | So now he 's just an uneducated farm worker , and knows nothing of the world . |
| 9 | A drive that is ‘ unaware ’ of how it is set up and knows nothing of the way it 's data is stored . |
| 10 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 11 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |