Example sentences of "could [verb] nothing at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately I could do nothing at all .
2 Felipe could do nothing at all .
3 Four , you could do nothing at all and leave any course of action to the solicitors comfortable then you should be using their best endeavours to obtain the licence .
4 He could feel nothing at all below the hook 's point of entry .
5 By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it .
6 Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all .
7 It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first .
8 He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first .
9 The footsteps stopped , and I could hear nothing at all .
10 Two exquisite thoroughbreds , she supposed they had looked , chatting to one another in their high-pitched , well-bred " London " voices , filling each shop in turn with their faintly tittering laughter , making Frizingley aware — whatever it chose to whisper behind their backs — that the dynastic alliance of one trading " and therefore " common " fortune with another could mean nothing at all to them .
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