Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] nothing at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 3 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 4 | Maggie said nothing at all . |
| 5 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 6 | Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all . |
| 7 | Rather than learning that ‘ nothing bad ’ follows a non-reinforced stimulus , the animal might learn that the stimulus predicts nothing at all , that the stimulus is not correlated with another event . |
| 8 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 9 | Alain said nothing at all and Jenna had to think fast , keeping as much to the truth as possible . |
| 10 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 11 | The front bed needles are all knitting , but the back bed needles do nothing at all . |
| 12 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 13 | Logic has nothing at all to do with what is about to happen . |
| 14 | So the Inland Revenue gets a bonus the company gets a claw-back and the members get nothing at all . |
| 15 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 16 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 17 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 18 | The Aussies , under the guidance of Andy Slack ( ‘ out best entertainment has nothing at all to do with rugby ’ ) quickly got to grips with their imported beer after the disappointment of losing to a late Welsh try in one of the opening games . |
| 19 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 20 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 21 | Their activities have nothing at all to do with sport and everything to do with telephone-number betting . |
| 22 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 23 | Because of one of the two mentioned here in this note has nothing at all to do with the environment . |
| 24 | The body came ashore into the grass with monstrous and majestic indifference , for the first time caring nothing at all what impression it made . |
| 25 | The only caller who stayed for any length of time said nothing at all . |