Example sentences of "that [verb] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 2 | At the office I put in a call to Connors that produced nothing . |
| 3 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 4 | I think it 's a response that has nothing to do with my interaction with Carrington . |
| 5 | In this area , there is a specialization of the tongue 's surface that has nothing to do with taste . |
| 6 | We frequently fall victim to this relative mentality because we live in a society that has nothing else by which to determine ethics , values or the worth of a person . |
| 7 | Where mystics like the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton insist that their apprehension of the divine brings with it a calm joy that has nothing to do with either physical or emotional sensation , these prophetic visionaries feel , like Julian , that the shock of the divine impact has brought them close to death . |
| 8 | A British company that has nothing to do with the American rail network , Amtrak is expanding and wants to recruit about 200 new franchisees in the next year . |
| 9 | ‘ When I look back I wish that had n't happened , because out of that comes the written situation and something develops that has nothing to do with the game at all . ’ |
| 10 | Repton is a case in point , and perhaps Mansbridge would have done better to omit works such as Repton 's Sarsden in Oxfordshire that has nothing to do with Nash except for stylistic associations . |
| 11 | It even has a title that has nothing to do with anything else in the film whatsoever . |
| 12 | Something that has nothing to do with your Darkfall Units . |
| 13 | How can you say that has nothing to do with the way you feel ? |
| 14 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 15 | It is not to be doubted that there are still thousands of mainframe users that want nothing more than to continue with the kind of computing they have always known , using the environment with which they are familiar , and in which they have invested a large part of their lives . |
| 16 | that say nothing . |
| 17 | Although surgery was a mutilation , and I had just lost a kidney , that seemed nothing compared with the loss of a beautiful head of hair . |
| 18 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 19 | — days that hold nothing but themselves — |
| 20 | He smiles at the reflection in the mirror and it too adopts the smile that says nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , that accomplished nothing ! ’ quacked the ducks . |
| 22 | A photography , after all , has a great capacity not to look like its subject : ‘ I 've hundreds of photographs of the Queen that look nothing like her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You must be very clever to find a use for something that costs nothing , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 25 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 26 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 27 | The Governor even went further by paraphrasing the Bible in his urgings for the bill 's passage : ‘ He that doeth nothing is damned , and I do n't want to be damned . ’ |
| 28 | It was idealistic and austere ; its classic authors were George Orwell , who died in January 1950 , and his friend Arthur Koestler ; its spirit was resolutely decent and fiercely anti-totalitarian , its chosen mode a polemical prose that lost nothing of its edge by being cast , at times , into argumentative fictions like Animal Farm ( 1945 ) , though its true forte was the article ; and its best poet , Dylan Thomas , was manifestly a survivor from an earlier age . |
| 29 | To the Tysons , that meant nothing extravagant — just an extra £135 a month to make life at home in South Ruislip , Middlesex easier . |
| 30 | It began with muffled voices that meant nothing . |