Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [is] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been known to refuse autographs by pleading that he 's nothing special and really does n't warrant such attention . |
| 2 | Some adolescents may need reassuring that there is nothing to be afraid of or ashamed about in night emissions or monthly periods . |
| 3 | We can not sit idly by and watch Yugoslavia tear itself to pieces , watch people being killed in vast numbers , and watch the wonderful archaeological and architectural gems being destroyed , while saying that there is nothing that we can do . |
| 4 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 5 | ‘ And there you were , insisting that there 's nothing personal between us . ’ |
| 6 | It is remarkable that this reform , which is so like that at democratic Athens , was the work of oligarchs , showing that there is nothing distinctively democratic about Kleisthenes ' tribal changes , although Herodotus says Kleisthenes introduced the tribes and the democracy , in that order ( vi.131 ) . |
| 7 | So that 's very , very important because it can be very misleading and you could be fooled into thinking that there 's nothing wrong with the baby , then there 'll also be swelling of the hands , feet and the eyelids might swell up , the medical word for that is oedema which you may well see in books , which means swelling occasionally the overlying skin is |