Example sentences of "nothing have happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 2 | Absolutely nothing has happened . |
| 3 | The outstanding voices here are Tomasz Jastrun from Poland , whose short , often sinister poems from the martial-law years , a time ‘ many centuries ago and yesterday ’ , make the reader uncomfortably aware that ‘ what terrifies in the face of death is the fact that almost nothing has happened ’ ; and Gojko Djogo from Yugoslavia , whose work , steeped in folklore , has a robust , defiant humour . |
| 4 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 5 | Nothing has happened in the interim to alter substantially the conclusion of Mr Attlee 's Engine Room that |
| 6 | Then we simply can not carry on our lives as if nothing has happened . |
| 7 | The output states of both gates would be 0 ( because nothing has happened yet ) . |
| 8 | Nothing has happened since I came here 10 months ago to make me change my mind that this is the biggest club left in Britain . |
| 9 | For the next few days — for as long as it takes — you just continue your life as though nothing has happened . |
| 10 | As opposed to heavyweight title fights of recent non-vintage in which virtually nothing has happened . |
| 11 | Nothing has happened since to contradict that judgment . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The Tories have slashed the value of their houses — but still expect them to pay the council tax as if nothing has happened . |
| 13 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 14 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 15 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 16 | Nothing has happened today , except that we have come to a sort of agreement about exercise . |
| 17 | The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened . |
| 18 | " Are you sure that nothing has happened since the weekend ? |
| 19 | Until he begins to write cheques , i.e. to spend , nothing has happened to the balance sheet . |
| 20 | Clearly , as far as our lending bank is concerned , nothing has happened to the money supply . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're behaving as though nothing has happened ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing has happened , ’ she whispered , raising her hands to her bare arms , trying to soothe the goose-pimples which marred their smooth surface . |
| 23 | The group that has used the old Cooking Centre has had to vacate the premises but so far nothing has happened . |
| 24 | The Cooking Centre was vacated and as far as is known nothing has happened . |
| 25 | Nothing has happened that is bad . |
| 26 | He takes his hand off as if nothing has happened , waits for my answer and drives into the night on my bidding . |
| 27 | But nothing has happened . |
| 28 | The couple act as if nothing has happened when Ferdinand agrees to stay . |
| 29 | And that was approved on the twenty seventh of January ninety three and nothing has happened about it since . |
| 30 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |