Example sentences of "nothing that [pers pn] [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that they can do can alter the fact that they are our responsibility . |
| 2 | What you 've described must be something that erm that that families of people who are suffering from eating disorders must feel very much , that there 's nothing that they can do to , to help . |
| 3 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 4 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 5 | I thought of life as the Whirlpool of Corrievrikin , where all men struggle helplessly and eventually are sucked into the vortex of death I see that we men have nothing that we can do in this whirlpool except find another creature that will share the hopelessness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hardly a word had passed between them but now the gunman looked up and said quietly , ‘ There is nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm also a man , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ and there 's nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 9 | there is nothing that you can do about it |
| 10 | Nothing that he can do in the way of concentrating on the original sensation and uttering the word ‘ pain ’ will succeed in endowing that word with a meaning . |
| 11 | And , anyway , there was nothing that she could do . |