Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 2 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 3 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 4 | The church has nothing for which to apologize . |
| 5 | thing and you know , they were over and some of them were doing something and it is somebody you normally and the news and I said the news and actually sort of frozen and the guy said to me , he must of actually seen me frozen there , he said it 's okay , it 's okay , it 's nothing about whatever her name is , you know |
| 6 | RACAL is the company which proves beyond a shadow of doubt that share prices say nothing about what a company is worth . |
| 7 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 8 | No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city . |
| 9 | In Malta the Navy knew little or nothing about what was happening — probably because of radio silence in the British Fleet . |
| 10 | In itself it tells us nothing about what constitutes such a nation , although since the late 19th century — but not , commonly , much before then — it has increasingly been defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 11 | During this briefing Mr Clayton said nothing about what medical evidence may exist relating to the nine children subject to Place of Safety warrants . |
| 12 | Their main source of information was meter reading , which , of course , told them nothing about what purposes domestic electricity was used for , and , more importantly for their costs , about what times of day it was used . |
| 13 | We know nothing about what a horse really tastes and feels when he nuzzles another horse . |
| 14 | Despite his most terrible threats , he could extract nothing about what went on during those eight days . " |
| 15 | landscape evaluation studies neither ascertain landscape tastes nor assess public preferences ; they tell us nothing about what landscapes the public values or why . |
| 16 | ‘ My men knew nothing about what was going on , ’ he hissed . |
| 17 | ‘ We knew nothing about what sort of paper to buy , we just tried to learn from books . |
| 18 | Nothing about what conjures up the distinctive perfume of a bookshop , however . |
| 19 | He pretended to know nothing about what happened between us . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 21 | Just repeating the question tells your examiner nothing about what you know , and takes up time and space . |
| 22 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 23 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 24 | ‘ You clearly knew nothing about what Jeff and Silvia were up to . |
| 25 | ‘ Remember — nothing about what I 've found out , ’ she warned him . |
| 26 | He told the inquest he remembered nothing about what happened in the crash . |
| 27 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 28 | it tells us nothing about which departments or chief officers might be more important than others ; |
| 29 | The answer is that it comes mid-way between them — which tells us nothing about which of the other two came first . |
| 30 | President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance . |