Example sentences of "could [verb] nothing at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 2 | Felipe could do nothing at all . |
| 3 | Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence . |
| 4 | He could feel nothing at all below the hook 's point of entry . |
| 5 | It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first . |
| 6 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 7 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 8 | Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all . |
| 9 | The footsteps stopped , and I could hear nothing at all . |
| 10 | Two exquisite thoroughbreds , she supposed they had looked , chatting to one another in their high-pitched , well-bred " London " voices , filling each shop in turn with their faintly tittering laughter , making Frizingley aware — whatever it chose to whisper behind their backs — that the dynastic alliance of one trading " and therefore " common " fortune with another could mean nothing at all to them . |
| 11 | When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by . |
| 12 | On Monday , when Sara had left the house early to see to things in two of the toy shops on the other side of the county , he could find nothing at home that he felt up to doing . |