Example sentences of "nothing can [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has set is hand to it along lines dictated by his own will , and nothing can deter him . |
| 2 | ‘ If Mr Rumback 's asleep , nothing can wake him . |
| 3 | Nothing can crush him . |
| 4 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 5 | So much that sometimes I can almost believe he belongs to me , that nobody and nothing can take him away . |
| 6 | But when anyone is beset by such evil power as this , nothing can save him but Jesus Christ : this I firmly believe . ’ |