Example sentences of "that she [verb] nothing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
2 And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face .
3 After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war .
4 Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale .
5 I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them .
6 Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’
7 In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all .
8 Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list .
9 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
10 The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack .
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