Example sentences of "[v-ing] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , there is a real risk of innovation producing nothing that is substantially changed . |
| 2 | Perfectly calm water mirrored a sky which shaded from smoky orange through turquoise to night blue , reflecting nothing but the sheerness of space , unlit by stars . |
| 3 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 4 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 5 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 6 | Molly brought out a big bowl of salad and sat looking at it , eating nothing . |
| 7 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |
| 8 | But Beethoven constructed page after page using nothing but this rhythmic motif . |
| 9 | These are examples of 386 memory managers and they can perform the clever trick of converting ordinary extended memory into old fashioned expanded memory , using nothing but the memory juggling built into the 386 chip . |
| 10 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 11 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 12 | Long after he should have turned away out of politeness she could feel his dark glance pricking all over her , sparing nothing . |
| 13 | After he checked this , he stepped carefully back , touching nothing . |
| 14 | Blair reached it first and carefully fished the north channel , catching nothing . |
| 15 | We were fishing together recently on Plantation Loch , near Altnaharra in North-West Sutherland , catching nothing . |
| 16 | We fished on in silence , still catching nothing . |
| 17 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 18 | He found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about , what possible pleasure there could be in waving a stick about for hours , catching nothing . |
| 19 | She looked away from him , out of the car window , seeing nothing . |
| 20 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 21 | He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important . |
| 22 | As the train slowed down , Sam came over to the fireman 's side and looked out and seeing nothing , suddenly realised the legend of the bridge . |
| 23 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 24 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 25 | She saw the child white in the face , as white as paper , trembling all over , the eyes glazed , staring straight ahead and seeing nothing . |
| 26 | One morning I drove out on my rounds with the headlights blazing against the grey curtain ahead , seeing nothing from my tight-shut box . |
| 27 | She walked the short distance to work , seeing nothing of the beauty of the day . |
| 28 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 29 | He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time . |
| 30 | They were nearing the auto now , plunging towards it , backing away , seeing nothing but each other . |