Example sentences of "had been nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 3 | There had been nothing written , only a long-standing tacit agreement about the brooch . |
| 4 | Until 1988 there had been nothing to indicate an increase in Palestinian confidence in the United States . |
| 5 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 6 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 7 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 8 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 9 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 10 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 11 | There had been nothing solitary about Ludovico 's life . |
| 12 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 13 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 14 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 15 | It was an idea based on the lifestyle of the true legionnaire , who , before his time in the Legion , had been nothing , and therefore in the eyes of the Legion , anything he had done in his past life was immaterial . |
| 16 | He glanced over his shoulder again , and discovered that the two men were nowhere to be seen — it had been nothing more than his imagination . |
| 17 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 18 | That at least was something to congratulate himself on , but there had been nothing else in the encounter to afford the Colonel any consolation . |
| 19 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 20 | Then there had been nothing — nothing but bare rooms : now there was the semblance of a working facility , even though most of the equipment remained in cases , waiting to be unpacked . |
| 21 | Intimacy , I had learned , can begin in a strange variety of ways , and we now had a relationship where previously there had been nothing . |
| 22 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 23 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 24 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 25 | ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ . |
| 26 | There had been nothing dramatic , no great debate , just a lot of jokes and heavy irony to start with , then a gradual , gentle separation . |
| 27 | There had been nothing . |
| 28 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 29 | And as it could n't be seen from the cockpit there had been nothing to remind her that it was still open . |
| 30 | There had been nothing achieved by the expedition save the coachman 's cold which now threatened to lay low the rest of her staff . |