Example sentences of "[prep] nothing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nothing done by Hitler in the external sphere during Eden 's time at the Foreign Office aroused any public reaction remotely comparable to that which engulfed Hoare over Abyssinia . |
| 2 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 3 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |
| 4 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 5 | But not for nothing had Max Klein spent the best years of his youth and early manhood at country fairs and markets learning to give as good as he got . |
| 6 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 7 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 8 | What could be more stable than for nothing to change ? |
| 9 | Not for nothing did Sue Ellen 's hair flop when she became an alcoholic . |
| 10 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 11 | They have to work for nothing to get the job done . |
| 12 | I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed . |
| 13 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 14 | Not for nothing do rivals sourly suggest that MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Seeks Domination Over Society . |
| 15 | Not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally . |
| 16 | Not for nothing have the return invitations dwindled a bit over the years . |
| 17 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 18 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 19 | Not for nothing has Nikolaus Pevsner 's The Englishness of English Art just been translated into German . |
| 20 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 21 | I ca n't think of nothing to say , so I just nod . |
| 22 | Soaked , confused and miserable , Mungo could think of nothing to say either . |
| 23 | Because he could think of nothing to say to her in reply , Gaily bought her a drink and left . |
| 24 | She could think of nothing to say . |
| 25 | I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead . |
| 26 | He could think of nothing to say , and Ellen went on . |
| 27 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 28 | Constance could think of nothing to say . |
| 29 | She could think of nothing to say . |
| 30 | I could think of nothing to say to that , so I said nothing . |