Example sentences of "nothing to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 2 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 3 | The offended looks of the muzzy black citoyen who is put in to own Salim 's store when trade is politicised are funny , and important , and owe nothing to the Aeneid . |
| 4 | It 's nothing to be proud of , just a fact . |
| 5 | It was a dish owing nothing to Sammut 's sex and everything to Provence . |
| 6 | I was after all surviving — and that was nothing to be sneezed at , the way things had gone . |
| 7 | It 's nothing to be proud of it . |
| 8 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 9 | Such theories contribute nothing to explaining the mystery of perception . |
| 10 | She walked and walked , up Shaftesbury Avenue , Holborn Viaduct , she gave nothing to buskers , veterans of the Great War , gassed blind , missing limbs , clinking cups , Cheapside , Threadneedle , Bishopsgate to Spitalfields . |
| 11 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 12 | It would also appear that many of the people who abuse the code of these shelters are not members of the MBA , so contribute nothing to their maintenance . |
| 13 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 14 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 15 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 16 | What a mind is Mr Kaufman 's , so sure there is nothing to be learned but what it wishes to learn , so serenely confident in its own perfected little judgement of what is a great and complex tragedy . |
| 17 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 18 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | Full entitlement to fees and maintenance could be offered to those on a basic income level ; 25 per cent to those earning , say , £12-£15,000 a year , and nothing to those with higher incomes . |
| 20 | Once you 've paid your $399 , you are a ‘ non-revenue passenger ’ , worth nothing to the airline . |
| 21 | But it owed everything to political manoeuvres and economic pressures in southern Africa , and nothing to British influence . |
| 22 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 23 | Not only is that true , it is also nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 24 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 25 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 26 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 27 | I know the name was McCloy but it did n't mean nothing to me . |
| 28 | ‘ You lot , ’ she muttered , ‘ you lot do n't reckon nothing to a working man . |
| 29 | There was n't nothing to be afraid of — it was only a side bit with some trolleys and stuff in it . |
| 30 | He do n't say nothing to me — he just carries on sweeping like I ai n't there . |