Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 2 | Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert . |
| 3 | ( It is interesting to note that the right to benefit for 16 and 17 year olds has been denied and these young people either accept some form of youth training or get nothing at all . ) |
| 4 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 5 | Erm she goes off on a Friday and you hear or see nothing till sort of Monday night . |
| 6 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 7 | — days that hold nothing but themselves — |
| 8 | A photography , after all , has a great capacity not to look like its subject : ‘ I 've hundreds of photographs of the Queen that look nothing like her . ’ |
| 9 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 10 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 11 | Conclude : ‘ It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it . ’ |
| 12 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 13 | Work is a good deal less boring than doing nothing at all . ’ |
| 14 | It was idealistic and austere ; its classic authors were George Orwell , who died in January 1950 , and his friend Arthur Koestler ; its spirit was resolutely decent and fiercely anti-totalitarian , its chosen mode a polemical prose that lost nothing of its edge by being cast , at times , into argumentative fictions like Animal Farm ( 1945 ) , though its true forte was the article ; and its best poet , Dylan Thomas , was manifestly a survivor from an earlier age . |
| 15 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 16 | Others were obscure , yet-to-come images that meant nothing to her . |
| 17 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 18 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 19 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 20 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 21 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 22 | Under fierce lights that did nothing for her head , a doctor and a technician examined them one at a time . |
| 23 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
| 24 | Contrite at first , but ‘ naughty ’ is an adult idea that means nothing to toddlers . |
| 25 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 26 | You could listen almost any time , anywhere — especially with your Walkman headset that filtered nothing but a mildly irritating hiss to passengers in your bus , say , or your train compartment . |
| 27 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 28 | John Newsom knew that , in his two Reports , he was moving nimbly between two worlds that had nothing in common . |
| 29 | For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’ |
| 30 | Out of the honed hard grain that had nothing in it . |