Example sentences of "i [vb past] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 2 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 3 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 4 | In actual fact , I got nothing but support , encouragement and — dare I say it ? — love from my colleagues . |
| 5 | I got nothing against Connie . |
| 6 | ‘ I got nothing against you , peeper , not yet . |
| 7 | ‘ I got nothing against religion — any religion , ’ said Len . |
| 8 | Midwinter said , ‘ I got nothing against clichés , son . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I found nothing about it that I did n't particularly like and plenty that I did . |
| 11 | On the table lay remains of a frugal breakfast ; I noticed nothing but bread and tea and some fruit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I received nothing but sympathy and understanding from them . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard nothing at all , it was purely accidental . |
| 15 | And Clarke said : ‘ I heard nothing about this supposed realignment until well after Black Wednesday . ’ |
| 16 | I heard nothing from students about a baby with alleged dog 's ears but plenty about biochemical investigations and possible treatments of Down 's syndrome from Professor Jerome Lejeune . |
| 17 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 18 | I confided nothing of my circumstances , merely asked Émile how he was and kept him telling me at length , without interrupting him . |
| 19 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 20 | Apart from a superficial , tactile pleasantness , I felt nothing at all . |
| 21 | I felt nothing under my shoes , and my soles tingled . |
| 22 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 23 | Well , I meant nothing at all , I assure you . |
| 24 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 25 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 26 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 27 | ‘ Gracious lady , I knew nothing of that . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew nothing of them . ’ |
| 29 | I knew nothing of growing before Melin Meloch , but when we left , it did n't look half bad . |
| 30 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |