Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] nothing at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a violent undercurrent in our society which has got nothing at all to do with football and where football must n't be complacent is to provide the opportunities at its matches to allow that undercurrent of violence to manifest itself . |
| 2 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 3 | I think you 'd like to watch nothing at all 'cause you have what you want on every day . |
| 4 | I have found that one gets told nothing at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 6 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
| 7 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 8 | The measure ( Beasley et al. , 1989 ) samples how much time the individual handicapped person spends in various categories of behaviour : for example , time spent in leisure activities ; persona or self help type of skills ; using complex equipment ; other practical tasks or domestic chores ; work or formal educational activities ; going for walks ; in seclusion or time spent doing nothing at all . |
| 9 | Since wars involve others than those who face battle , that overwhelming majority who may prefer to have nothing at all to do with war , they can not , and should not , be omitted from any modern consideration of the subject . |
| 10 | Considering that the New Critics seem to have known nothing at all about the work of the Formalists and their successors ( it is not mentioned at all , for instance , in Wimsatt and Brooks 's Literary Criticism : A Short History of 1957 ) , these affinities are really very striking . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 12 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 13 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 14 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 15 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 16 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 17 | About all that , all those premiums you 've paid and you 're fifty one , and all of a sudden you 've got nothing at the end of it ? |
| 18 | We , we 've got the how you can help section here , but we 've got nothing at all about what the charity does and how it does it , yes we need some appropriate words for getting the idea that they 're helping children . |
| 19 | You 've got nothing at all ? |
| 20 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 21 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 22 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 23 | True , we had discovered nothing at Glastonbury or of why Cosmas and Damien had been killed . |
| 24 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 25 | ‘ Very sick , and it 's got nothing at all to do with the sea . ’ |
| 26 | Love 's got nothing at all to do with it , love 's a stupid joke , God , how he 'd laugh at me . |
| 27 | For a moment she considered saying nothing at all — after all , he had refused to answer her questions . |