Example sentences of "[conj] it was nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was Welsh or it was nothing . |
| 2 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents . |
| 4 | He came round at once , and said that it was nothing to worry about ; Susan was worn out , that was all , and must stay in bed for a few days . |
| 5 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 6 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 7 | He said that it was nothing to do with him ; it was a matter for the Department of the Environment . |
| 8 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 9 | ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was . |
| 10 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 11 | ‘ So it was nothing to do with my magnetic personality , outrageous sexuality , fantastic charisma ? ’ |
| 12 | And it was nothing strange : |
| 13 | Sombro was presenting a common behaviour problem for male dogs , and it was nothing to do with high-strung pedigree breeding , failure to live up to expectations of unreasonable or over-demanding owners , or lack of freedom or space . |
| 14 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 15 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 16 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 17 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 18 | Everything went well , and it was nothing serious . |
| 19 | I could n't say where , except it was like a pit , and sometimes I was floating above and it was nothing to do with me . |
| 20 | Come that way er like , they do n't seemed to be giving it to 'em , and it was nothing to do with them , they bought it and , and they would have a search done as the reason when you buy houses are n't there ? |
| 21 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 22 | If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix … and then all of the 31 pits that had been threatened were to close , that would be completely unacceptable . ’ |
| 23 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 24 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 25 | But it was nothing . ’ |
| 26 | If I discounted 75 percent of what he intimated , there was a lot to suspect but it was nothing hard and fast . ’ |
| 27 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |
| 28 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 29 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | She did eventually die of a heart attack but it was nothing to do with Luke . ’ |