Example sentences of "[vb -s] nothing of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notional/functional syllabus offers nothing of novelty here . |
| 2 | A man of intriguing contradictions , he espouses Ivy League courtesy yet thinks nothing of hiring private investigators to snoop on his former tactician ; he adheres to Corinthian values yet his syndicate is heavily sponsored ; he professes the scientific and analytical approach yet can be impulsive and petulant in his decision-making . |
| 3 | He thinks nothing of doing business with the pariahs of the UN . |
| 4 | She thinks nothing of going out at ten o'clock at night . |
| 5 | " there 's the very devil of a horseman in yonder field who thinks nothing of eating three tigers for breakfast ! " |
| 6 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 7 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 8 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 9 | It is Isaac , who understands nothing of what is going on , who in fact understands here , while his father , who thought he understood , understands nothing . |
| 10 | Wisden says he is nearly 82 ; he still looks nothing of the kind , but lately he has started to feel it a little more . |
| 11 | The Harpies ' cave is little more than a smelly hollow in the side of the hill , and contains nothing of interest , save for old bones from the Harpies ' victims . |
| 12 | It contains nothing of real interest , and I have included it in the chart with Vela . |
| 13 | It contains nothing of interest to the binocular observer . |
| 14 | Sextans contains nothing of interest to the binocular observer . |
| 15 | ‘ He wants nothing of a God but eternity and a Heaven to throne in , ’ he shouted at Gail Russell , frightening the girl off the street . |
| 16 | The cave is ten yards long with a low roof and has nothing of interest , its only merit being as a safe refuge from rain and wind . |
| 17 | Martin Pipe 's New Zealand-bred put up a useful effort to beat Mad Thyme on his debut at Uttoxeter and has nothing of that calibre to deal with here . |
| 18 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 19 | It is an accurate statement of the difference of definition between void and voidable contracts , but it says nothing of their different effects . |
| 20 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 21 | It looks very substantial on the surface , but when one looks below the surface , one finds nothing of any substance . |
| 22 | Harriet mentions nothing of this . ’ |
| 23 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 24 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 25 | It proves nothing of the sort , " thought the Magistrate , stroking his cinnamon whiskers with excitement that bordered on ecstasy . |
| 26 | The Church herself ‘ rejects nothing of those things which are true and holy in other religions . ’ |
| 27 | In practice , of course , he does nothing of the sort . |
| 28 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 29 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | In this predicament , one does nothing of the kind . |