Example sentences of "[pron] [art] " in BNC.

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31 There is nothing the adventurers can do about any of this .
32 When a stem is cut midway between nodes , there is nothing the plant can do with the stem part above the last growth or eye , and so it dies back .
33 There is nothing the matter with this , except that it ai n't so .
34 Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) .
35 There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland .
36 " There 's nothing the matter with me . "
37 They can payout 15 per cent in a good year and nothing the next .
38 And there 's nothing the county can say about it .
39 There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place .
40 Having read the transcript of evidence and having reviewed the findings of fact made by the deputy judge , I can find nothing the matter with his conclusion that the onus of establishing testamentary capacity had not been discharged .
41 I can see nothing the matter with the use of Form N111 although I agree that the form would be improved by a reference to the contemnor 's right to try to purge his contempt .
42 It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book .
43 The wife , we learn , is the one who is about to be tried for the crime , and nothing the narrator has been able to say has convinced the police he himself is the guilty man .
44 There 's nothing the matter with me !
45 By this time I was really getting worried , so I took him back and the doctor said , ‘ Oh , it 's all right , there 's nothing the matter with him . ’
46 There 's nothing the matter with me . ’
47 Nothing the same .
48 ‘ There 's nothing the matter with your horrid back !
49 Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements .
50 A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached .
51 There was no money , no pocket book or wallet , no bunch of keys , no watch , no Penknife — nothing The Inspector next examined the clothes themselves .
52 Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it .
53 There is nothing the matter with me .
54 If we do nothing the badger is doomed to suffer , and terrible suffering goes on all the time .
55 There was nothing the matter with his features .
56 He did nearly nothing the whole game .
57 And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox .
58 And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox .
59 However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house .
60 ‘ There 's nothing the matter with me .
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