Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our defence experts have assured me that nothing of any real size could get through undetected . |
| 2 | You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’ |
| 3 | His eyes blazed with a sudden fury , and as she cringed away from him in horror he took a deep breath and ruthlessly controlled himself till nothing but the white-boned knuckles showed his internal rage . |
| 4 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 5 | She means nothing to me and nothing to Dysart either . |
| 6 | There was no elasticity in them and nothing at all of the swelling sap , rising around him . |
| 7 | Obviously nothing in what the parties may write binds them and nothing in what the parties write confines the boundary of their independent review . |
| 8 | In Castenada 's case , he ‘ enters a world so different that he comes to accept reality itself as nothing but a social construct , with effects so devastating … that ethnography becomes mysticism ’ ( Goward 1984 : 90 ) . |
| 9 | From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length . |
| 10 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 11 | Because there 's everything and nothing to be said , |
| 12 | The Patois index therefore tells us everything and nothing about an individual speaker : it tells us whether that person uses many or few Patois features overall in their talk , but nothing about how he or she uses Patois and English as part of a communicative strategy . |
| 13 | And when , five minutes later , they made their way cautiously over the humpy grass into the heart of the ruins there was no one and nothing to be seen . |
| 14 | I have no one and nothing in the world . ’ |
| 15 | as if there was a whole load of things behind him and nothing in front but age . |
| 16 | He said nothing at all about his angry chase after her and nothing about her fear . |
| 17 | Matthew Ryan says his girlfriend had warned him there would be a few people to greet him but nothing like this . |
| 18 | I never brushed it or nothing like I do to Marie 's . |
| 19 | Physicists tell us that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , and this applies to signals inside a computer , too . |