Example sentences of "nothing could [vb infin] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 2 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 3 | Nothing could have saved it since we both had n't finished growing up . |
| 4 | Nothing could have stopped me . ’ |
| 5 | If this had not happened nothing could have stopped him and the whole party would have been dragged down after him . |
| 6 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 7 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 8 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 9 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 10 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 11 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 12 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 13 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 14 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 15 | Nothing could have prepared him , however , for the complex welter of emotions which followed Emma 's death in 1912 after years of virtual estrangement . |
| 16 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 17 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 18 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 19 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 20 | Nothing could have prepared us for Holmes ( named after Sherlock Holmes as his ears resembled the detectives hat ) . |