Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen was dead and it meant nothing to them at all . |
| 2 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 3 | Complexity was neither necessary nor desirable ; it was of no practical use and it solved nothing in the end . |
| 4 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 5 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 6 | The 1927 Cinematograph Act imposed a distributors quota of 7.5 per cent , and an exhibitors quota of five per cent , both rising to 20 per cent , but it did nothing in itself to shift the economic balance in favour of British producers . |