Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore his mood wrapped tightly round like him like a galabeah until he was prepared to throw it off , and there was nothing I could do to change him . |
| 2 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 3 | And there 's nothing I can do to make him say otherwise . ’ |
| 4 | The past is past and there is nothing I can do to change it . |
| 5 | But if they do not change their view there is nothing I can do to change it . |
| 6 | This organ works at its own rate and there 's almost nothing you can do to speed it up . |
| 7 | This was a critical group , among whom the most commonly heard comment was ‘ There 's nothing you can do to stop it ’ . |
| 8 | These occur in the second half of pregnancy , and there is nothing you can do to prevent them . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , your cat is one of the deaf ones , then there is nothing you can do to help it . |
| 10 | But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry . |
| 11 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 12 | But once they were engaged , there was nothing she could do to turn him on . |
| 13 | If they wanted her , they 'd come and there was nothing she could do to stop it . |
| 14 | Her uncle and her father were at war , and there was nothing she could do to stop it . |
| 15 | There was nothing she could do to resist him , though she did not want to resist . |
| 16 | She knew there was nothing she could do to make him go away ; and she smelt him , and the acrid want in him . |
| 17 | There seemed nothing she could do to make it less so . |
| 18 | Like the nuns they never refused a beggar and , no matter what Marie Claire 's opinions of that were , there was nothing she could do to prevent them . |
| 19 | If he had an anaphylactic reaction out here , there would be nothing she could do to help him , doctor or not . |
| 20 | And it was so swift that there was absolutely nothing she could do to avoid it . |
| 21 | There was nothing she could do to warn him about trouble except beat a hasty retreat back to their hotel suite in Cascais before Jason could catch up with her . |
| 22 | If her ladyship 's mind was made up , there was nothing she could say to change it . |
| 23 | ‘ And there will be nothing we can do to help them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If the elusive Mr Cupplewaite 's solicitors wo n't play ball , there 's nothing we can do to make them . ’ |
| 25 | And there 's nothing we can do to make them . |
| 26 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 27 | ‘ Is there nothing we can say to make you change your mind ? ’ |
| 28 | That at least was something , something I could cling to , something I could use to keep you close to me . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's something I 'd like to ask you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There 's something I 'd like to tell you , ’ he began slowly , ‘ That is , if you would n't think it an intrusion . ’ |