Example sentences of "that i [verb] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 3 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 4 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 5 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 6 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 7 | Now I see that I know nothing , only I must not say so for I should lose the good opinion of my neighbours and they would no longer trust me with money for my experiments . |
| 8 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 9 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 10 | You all insist that I know nothing but nobody else can do this . |
| 11 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 12 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 13 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 14 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 15 | Having sized up the competition and feeling confident that I had nothing to fear , I boldly took a step forward , grabbed a morsel of soap and proceeded to scrub away . |
| 16 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 17 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 18 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 19 | Just believe me when I say that I had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this . |
| 20 | I told myself that I did n't feel cold , that I felt nothing , that I had ‘ shut off my nerves ’ . |
| 21 | Returning to Reine that afternoon , I caught sight of Jean-Claude slipping into the dark urban cleft that was the rue de Sèvres , and I noticed that I felt nothing , neither curi-osity nor apprehension . |
| 22 | I could have told you years ago how I feel about you instead of trying to pretend to myself that I felt nothing . ’ |
| 23 | ’ . So that I disturbed nothing , but went out through a door into the walled kitchen garden — the garden with its crumbly black soil enriched by centuries of pigs , pails , and poultry , where soon houses would stand . |
| 24 | This is the trouble : that I understand nothing . |
| 25 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 26 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 27 | The attitude of the companies is such that I want nothing to do with them ; I like to think we will survive without ruining the lives of the animals and destroying the land . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I find it interesting that there 's this whole small town that claims me , that I want nothing to do with . |
| 29 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 30 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |