Example sentences of "[vb past] nothing at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 2 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 3 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 4 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 5 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 6 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 7 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 8 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 9 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 10 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard nothing at all , it was purely accidental . |
| 12 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 13 | She heard nothing at all . |
| 14 | The unexpected shock of this letter produced in Coleridge a ‘ waking Night-mair of Spirits ’ , and brought a sudden realization of the true state of his feelings for Sara : he felt nothing at all . |
| 15 | Apart from a superficial , tactile pleasantness , I felt nothing at all . |
| 16 | She felt nothing at all . |
| 17 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 18 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 19 | ‘ Love , Leo , ’ meant nothing at all , she tried to convince herself . |
| 20 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 21 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 22 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |
| 23 | He brought nothing at all into the marriage , and the family wanted nothing to do with him . |
| 24 | Kathleen herself saw nothing at all they could , or should , try to do . |
| 25 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 26 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 27 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 28 | On the face of it , it seemed that she was gaining Ana 's confidence , but then Felipe already had her confidence and he knew nothing at all about her blindness . |
| 29 | Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered , it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory . |
| 30 | ‘ She did nothing at all . |