Example sentences of "nothing could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 2 | When in her twenties , nothing could stop her and she was proud to remember marriages faltering and once even , Astrid 's , biting the dust . |
| 3 | And Lucy 's silky warm skin all along her , arms wrapped round each other , so close that nothing could come between . |
| 4 | Nothing could disturb this love . |
| 5 | But in this new raw situation that was flooding up round them , nothing could be clear , not yet . |
| 6 | By two forty-five her confidence was complete ; nothing could stop her now . |
| 7 | Nothing could be further from the home life of our own Combined Services Sports Board , which has yet to recognise the 13-a-side code . |
| 8 | Nothing could be done to alter what felt like a sentence . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing could be more complicated than the answer and even the answer , he says , is in question . |
| 10 | Yet nothing could alter the double personal difficulty — a difference of principles between a low churchman and a high churchman , and an indefinable difference of temperament . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing could stop her . |
| 12 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 13 | Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same . |
| 14 | There 's a listening service via the telephone to let parents eat with peace of mind , and nothing could surpass the service in the dining room . |
| 15 | Nothing could give the Princess more satisfaction . |
| 16 | Nothing could be more boring , to her mind , than standing on the banks of a river for hour after hour , sometimes the entire day , hoping for a fish to take . |
| 17 | Something must be done , but nothing could be done , seems a fair summary of the commission 's conclusion . |
| 18 | Nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 19 | Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money . |
| 20 | Nothing could seem further from the days of J.P . |
| 21 | One of them , Neil , could — like his father — turn his hand to anything , and also had the same sense of humour , which nothing could quench . |
| 22 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 23 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 24 | Nothing could illustrate the point more vividly than the following extract from a letter written in 1857 by Thomas Boardman to one of his surviving sons , describing the death of another son , who was curate at Louth : |
| 25 | Nothing could wake her up when she 's had a couple of them . |
| 26 | Nothing could cheer him up . |
| 27 | Nothing could make clearer the extent of God 's commitment to his world than the appearance of the Jacob stories so hard on the heels of those few stories about Isaac . |
| 28 | But nothing could compare with the two universal sex-symbols of the decade , Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot . |
| 29 | Nothing could be more natural . |
| 30 | She is going to some home , that is all , nothing could be less remarkable . |