was nothing

She looked for food, but there was nothing but a little raw oatmeal in the house.

When he ran low on morphine, he began injecting some of the badly wounded with a "painkiller" that was nothing more than a saline injection.

There was nothing but a flash yellow close to his ankle.

This trial was nothing like the recent swine flu vaccine trials: one shot and bingo, protection for a year.

At first the subject was nothing special to me , then gradually I became interested in it. In time, I found myself in love with it.

And Edgar Kraft himself was nothing but a part of this grand design, nothing but a cog in a gigantic machine.

Knowing that there was nothing kids loved more than coiled metal, James figured he just might have invented the world's greatest toy ever.

Uncle Gen stepped up to give a hand, but he was chased out right at the moment since he was nothing but a loafer in people's eyes.

Edward: You're right. It was nothing, nothing but what I always expected and nothing compared to what could have happened.

My friend examined the boy and found there was nothing the matter with him.

There was nothing to it. It was like resolving to drink coffee or take a bath every morning.

When the universe was born, there was nothing but hydrogen, helium and a little lithium.

As a matter of fact, there was nothing special about the tree. It was just like any other tree.

In such a weather of sleet, people would rather stay indoors for a whole day than going out if there was nothing urgent and imperative.

There was nothing left but a horses posterior - and a pair of glasses.

If I thought giving up soda might be hard, it was nothing for me compared to giving up milk.

I smiled nonchalantly: 'It was nothing. Someday you'll do this too. ' He looked at me as if I was a god.

I was reassured that it wasn't my fault, that there was nothing I could have done; it was his choice.

It was dark, like dusk on a cloudy day, with only enough light to see that there was nothing to see.

The WSA said there might be "a small amount of underreporting" from China but it was "nothing like" what Mr Fish has reported.

There was no use asking him to give any suggestion. He would always brag that there was nothing like leather.

With Maurizio out of the way, she figured there was nothing to stop her from taking over the company herself.

In the middle of the night, there was a strange noise outside. But when I looked out of the tent, there was nothing to see.

I ll tell you, you look at it, up until Freud, the last century, there was nothing called Psychology or Psychiatry.

Unfortunately there was nothing else I could do but walk back to the dressing room, but I already knew what happened to me wasn't good.

I ran upstairs and went into all the rooms one after another, but there was nothing that could possibly make such a noise.

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

He shrugged his shoulders as if to say that there was nothing he could do about it.

Dr. Shade said it would be necessary to be careful for a while, but he was confident that there was nothing to worry about.

Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.

So there was nothing for it but for his mother to order preparations for yet another ball.

Although not a strong boy , there was nothing of the coward about him.

For there was nothing to be got, fit for his men to eat, of the growth of that place, nor could anything be imported from any other.

'It was nothing, ' he said with his usual conviction. 'Anyone could tell that you're strange. You're just numb, that's all. '

The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, there was nothing there.

So the assumption at that time of course, was that if you were an atheist there was nothing for you to make you moral.

Cosco insisted on Friday that there was nothing unusual about the dispute, which has led to the seizure of at least three Cosco vessels .

There was nothing left for her to do but cry.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these books, it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

There was nothing to fear from the Egyptians, accustomed as they were to despotism since the Pharaonic age.

But there was nothing, only the children running in and out of their circles and games, and no sign of where the cry had come from.

There was nothing but a desk, your files and, if you were lucky, a window to distract you.

Yet in other respects her foot was nothing like an ape at all, bearing characteristics that would enable her to walk upright.

I thought that there was nothing wrong with having a chat with the leader. So I sipped the milk and chatted with him.

Well, that was easy too; there was nothing to hear but the high cold wind and a few sweet birds.

It was nothing but a rock, with one creek naturally arched by the force of tempests.

I took this photo two weeks ago in Guangzhou, and I realized that 10 years ago, there was nothing like this of these buildings.

Neighbours said the suspect had asked them to call an ambulance but had allegedly said "it was nothing serious" .

I hate to tell you this, but it was nothing but a sob story.

And yet there was nothing, just a silence of moving shadows, a bulb winking at the walls.

However, in General's eye, she was nothing more than a little girl something wrong with her eyes.

There was nothing for the disappointed firemen to do but drink tepid coffee and hang around trying to screw the nurse.

At length there was nothing more to be said; the ladies drove on, and the others returned into the house.

The general consensus is that both Bridgestone and Michelin had strong, durable rubber, and that there was nothing to choose between them.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind.

"Israel has no intention of giving the flu any new names. It was nothing more than a slip of the tongue , " the official said.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if the whole world were holding its breath.

"But he was nothing on at all, " a little child finally said, unable to refrain from telling the truth.

It seemed there were knocks at the door and we said it was nothing but the wind.

I thought he would betray some emotion as he passed around photos of his handsome, scholarly looking boy. There was nothing.

"I screamed, but there was nothing to hear, " he said, via his keyboard.

She momentarily laid the painting in her lap and I could see it was nothing but a plain white blank.

There was nothing fearful about this man but it was a significant encounter for me.

In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor gendarmes, there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts.

A camel, a wombat, and a kangaroo cross the road: It sounds like the setup for a joke, but there was nothing funny about the Eyre Highway.

When Michael and I walked out of the restaurant, I thought, maybe it was nothing bad at all if some day we had something like that.

There was nothing but him in my eyes, as well as my heart and mind.

He should have been angry at what I said. It was nothing more than a joke.

B, There was nothing he desired more than to see the matter end.

There was nothing to say - we were very, very happy, and she also wanted less money than all the other translators we had called!

In the Macphails' there was nothing but a poor, worn bed with a ragged mosquito net, a rickety chair, and a washstand.

He held her hand and squeezed it to signal his warm feelings, and said that there was nothing to forgive.

He shouldn't have been angry with me for what I said, for it was nothing more than a joke.

I realized why he slipped into the office oddly before the class---It was nothing but his tricks!

there was nothing the matter with it when I lent it to him.

What I had said to Daniel was clumsy and trite. It was nothing. And yet, it was everything.

I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all.

There was nothing to do but work in her mother's dress shop, sleep around in San Francisco, get pregnant, have an abortion.

Marg was no ordinary 84-year-old woman. She was a grandmother, a wife, and daredevil. There was nothing she wouldnt try once.

But still he could not get away, there was nothing for it but to let himself be thrust into a black-pudding with the bits of bacon.

Afghanistan was nothing but a third world country with the ruthless Taliban preventing any growth what so ever to occur in their country.

Ralph tried to thank me for helping him move some furniture but I told him it was nothing.

There was nothing extraordinary in the tale: any woman would have done as much for a neighbour's child.

The stand -in performer gave the performance everything he had. When he had finished, there was nothing but an uncomfortable silence.

or did she become anosognosia, as well, truly believing that there was nothing wrong with her husband?

Like the old minister, he looked and looked, but could see nothing, and there was nothing to be seen.

But I admit I gave him the biggest smile of my life when he told me the tests were negative and there was nothing wrong with me.

"Art for me was nothing at the beginning, " he said. "It was a way to get out of there, to survive. "

Trying to follow their directions was nothing but grief.

There was nothing he could do but sit there like an idiot and watch the ugly black puffs smashing up to kill him.

There was nothing to wash out -- no mark of any kind -- no blood whatever. I had been too smart for that. A tub had caught all -- ha! ha!

There was nothing strange in the writer's thinking so; but it did not fail to gain the appreciation of the readers of the time as well.

"At first, my brain was nothing but blank, " Shen recalled. "But I still had the belief I could get the child back. "

He knew quite well the pattern of what could happen when he reached the inner part of the current . But there was nothing to be done now .

I saw her palms first. My eyes traveled up to her face, and my expression was nothing short of aghast.

However, some experts argued that the notion that there was nothing but the eight Model Operas in Cultural Revolution culture is mistaken.

I may have been just a mere boat captain, but he treated me as if I was nothing!

She looked in the direction of the window, but there was nothing in front of her eyes other than the deep blackness.

A man jumped from a plane, but there was nothing wrong with him. Do you know why?

Forgiven her? There was nothing to forgive. She was trying to escape from her own particular solitude. She gave me just enough to survive.

She did not realize that she could win a man's appreciation so easily. But maybe that was nothing but appreciation.

Paul said he had done this before and that there was nothing to worry about.

To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it was not dazzled by the apparition.

There was nothing remarkable about the pen, excepting that it had been dipped too deeply in the ink, but it was proud of that.

In all her intercourse with society, however, there wAS nothing that made her feel AS if she belonged to it.

Since he couldn't run away, there was nothing he could do, so he gave the child a name.

And Fergie raved : "We had to tell Gerard his physique was nothing like as advanced as that of Fabregas and that he had to strengthen up. "

When he had finished, there was nothing but an uncomfortable silence.

I told him it was nothing, but I was wondering if I should play it up and escape to the nurse's office for the next hour.

I used to think that I could not go on and life was nothing but an awful song.

There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

So that at the end of the day, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.

So far as he knew, he said, there was nothing worth reading.

Then I looked down again and realized that between the first floor and the seventh floor there was nothing but empty space.

I never heard such a noise. Papa began to shout " Whoa boys, steady boys, steady. . . " But there was nothing he could do.

And lo! it wasn't a pot of gold at all! It was nothing but a lump of silver.

The sea robber laughed as he looked back and saw that there was nothing to mark the place of the hidden rock.

He was tempted to feel that his life was nothing but trouble and bitterness, that there was no meaning to his existence.

Everything about this kitchen was typical of a traditional kitchen. There was nothing special about it.

But when her husband admitted he was having an affair and said he wanted a divorce, there was nothing she could do to stop it.

the man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets. there was nothing in them but a piece of bread.

Her husband had dissolved into the bath water like a turtle cooked into soup, and there was nothing left of him but his hair!

It would be inaccurate, though, to claim that there was nothing I'd said or written that served as a building block for this new book.

Shen was terrified, but there was nothing she could do to stop the torture that Mrs. Gu created for herself by years of mistreating animals.

And they were all old neighbours in the graveyard, most of them friends; there was nothing to feel awkward or embarrassed about.

The dean's speech in the meeting yesterday was nothing but a rubber stamp about the goal of life.

(84)There was nothing he desired more than to see the matter ended.

In his true words (or those of one of his ghostwriters): "I was a footballer but I was nothing compared to Victoria at that point. "

Their car broke down in the wilderness. There was nothing to do but wait for help to arrive.

Later you may say that the luck you experienced when Jupiter met with the Sun was nothing less than a miracle.

However, this new machines indicate that what the company produced in the past few years was nothing but cooking oil made from gutter oil.

Captain: There was nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses.

They were plunged into utter darkness knowing there was nothing worse, for when the lights go out it was said the tunnels change and move.

Of course, he encountered Carrie through Mrs. Vance; but there was nothing responsive between them.

there be nothing to see I knew it was there, but there was nothing to see.

"Last week I was nothing, but this week I'm a phenomenon, " he said.

Quickly, he looked again, but there was nothing there. He felt afraid. Slowly he stood up and left the cold, dark room.

the men are limp , they feel a doom somewhere , and they go about as if there was nothing to be done.

There was nothing but rocks rolling, driven by the hard wind which I could feel blowing against my wings.

How rarely we ever said "ooh that's not a good shot" about any shot Dallas took. It was nothing but quality looks.

When a king's son came near to the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large and beautiful flowers.

The beetle requested that the eagle respect his intercession and the laws of hospitality even though he was nothing but a tiny insect.

This grating was nothing else than a piece of the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries.

You must not see life in terms of money . His escape was nothing less than a miracle.

After criticizIng our proposal In every detail, the director went on to reassure us that there was nothIng personal In his comments.

Yes , I was , when the plane hit an air-pocket. But the stewardess told us it was nothing serious , and I calmed down.

There was that rush of energy and excitement and it seemed like there was nothing that could stop you from moving forward.

There was nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses .

There was nothing Italy and AS Roma goalkeeper Ivan Pelizzoli could do as the ball rocketed into the corner of the net.

Since it was raining outside and there was nothing to watch on the TV, we decided to enter the competition.

What the two other commuters and I did was nothing so very special, and it took just a few minutes of our time.

The others flashed their searchlights down just to make sure, there was nothing inside but a few inches of stagnant rain water.

He was nothing but a nuisance and a rascal.

I used to think there was nothing wrong with clients being cheap or asking for discounts. After all, we all love bargains.

Before dawn the temple was nothing but the ebb and flow of an immense sea.

An hour and half ago it was nothing but a bunch of powder and binder.

Security around the presidential palace at Bogor, where Bush met his Indonesian counterpart, was nothing less than a military operation.

but that had disappeared somehow and there was nothing to see but desert.

There was nothing unusual about this affair of the blinds, for Ruston and Misery robbed everybody.

There was nothing in it for the light to fall on, for the eye to see.

he could not bear to see someone die because there was nothing to stem their bleeding, he says.

the shock from the physical changes in the city was nothing compared to the confusion and hurt I soon began to feel in my parents' home.

What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution and a thriving market.

As far as the knowledge within the book was concerned, there was "nothing in it" , much like Richard's Secrets to a War Wizard's Power.

A thief must certainly make restitution, but if he was nothing, he must be sold to pay for his theft.

Husband: It was nothing. My wife was a bit unhappy, and threw my overcoat out of the window.

Now he was dead and everything was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.

I was nothing but a drop -out , but look at me now .

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear, ' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state.

It was nothing in my mind especially, just the fact that the journalist asked me if I would ever leave the Club.

It was a confrontation and we talked. It is something I have done in the past two years with him, so it was nothing major.

"And the worst thing, " she said, " is that there was nothing wrong with it. "

Husband: It was nothing. My wife was a bit cross, and threw my overcoat out of the window.

When I complimented her, she coloured up a bit and said it was nothing really.

I unlocked each one carefully expecting to find some sort of damage but there was nothing.

But it was nothing compared to all the money made since then from Superman comics, radio and TV shows, movies and toys.

There was nothing to be done, so down the reaper bent again and went on with his work.

As a youngster, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday afternoons on my grandfather's farm in western Pennsylvania.

"Yes, " said all the functionaries, but they could not see anything, because there was nothing to see.

Thirteen years ago, it was nothing but a dream to watch Milan games live on TV.

It was just a meeting. That meeting was nothing special.

I was nothing but a dropout. But look at me now!

There was nothing but darkness and sausages on the menu - and schnitzel, of course.

There was nothing in the hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet, --the remains of the winter's provision.

If there was nothing actively alarming about you, you could get a pretty enthusiastic response merely by showing up.

There was nothing preordained about Chicago being home to a program of that scale.

There was nothing else for it. He had to sit still on a small folding stool, half smothered by the heavy coast hanging there .

They flew on and on till they couldn't see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides.

Farnsworth didn't allow television viewing in his home. He said there was nothing good on it that was worthwhile.

For an hour I had to try to explain to him why there was nothing' in holes, how a road can run both ways and what makes the grass green.

I knew it was there, but there was nothing to see.

For her, government was nothing more than licensed robbery and altruism just an excuse for power-grabbing.

Realizing there was nothing for him to do to save his plane, the pilot unhesitatingly baled out.

You said it was nothing to do with you my thing, you're right no way difficult.

There was nothing more important in the world to me than to just spend time with you.

There was nothing on the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped, and a few cigarette butts.

For the first time in years he had a desire to do something, but there was nothing to do in his paradise.

I looked once more down Sally's well, and this time there was nothing there to haunt me. Just clouds, clouds, then sun.

There was nothing individual about him except a deep scar across his right cheek.

In the end the main thing is to be in the top ten in the second one. That was enough, so there was nothing to worry about.

As an Arab and a Muslim, there was nothing much I can benefit from what Obama has to say.

We got off the bus and came to the Visitor Center, and the first glance was nothing but the beautiful seascape.

His foot hurt, but it was nothing compared with hunger, which made him go on until darkness fell.

Again, there was nothing threatening in the suggestion-but there was an apparent breach of etiquette.

There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.

There was nothing left to say, he just showed the bread with his shivering hand in front of her.

I picked it up, turned it around, unbuttoned its clothes, to find if there was a battery compartment or anything, but there was nothing.

There was nothing when you came into this planet that gave you any hope that you would sit in a chair in 2011 and be safe.

The plants had been selected by rational guess, but there was nothing controlled about how well they would work as a system.

There was nothing special about it except for the fact that it was the first time in my young life that I was literally prostituting myself.

We were all sorry about Black Dog getting away, but there was nothing we could do.

My mother I know is. dead. But I never saw her, she was nothing to me.

Bizarrely, Medvedev endorsed the move during Wednesday's press conference, saying it was "nothing out of the ordinary. "

There was nothing to be seen but a few lights.

There was nothing for me to do. My mother and aunt were standing and kneeling and sitting down according to no rhythm I could comprehend.

There was nothing to do but sit back in comfortable teak chairs and watch the city go by.

Look, pumpkin, I'm really sorry, you know, they boardered the whole place. There was nothing we could do.

When they get through to the producer, he says it was nothing in particular, just a social call.

Then one day, when she was looking at the Sunday paper and complaining that there was nothing in it.

She peered beyond him to the driveway, but there was nothing about the small car to give a clue as to his identity.

He was not happy. However, there was nothing he could do other than to have the website remove my bid.

After I sat and cursed for a while, there was nothing more to do but change the tire.

Thirty years ago, Kobe was nothing but a small fishing village.

The charm of life was gone; there was nothing but dreariness left.

There was nothing abstract in his remedies: he always ordered you to take medicines.

In the old society what these parasites cared about was nothing but drinking and heeling around.

"I know. But there was nothing we could do. " Said Jack. His boots were killing him. He climbed out of his barrel.

By the time your father got down the hill, his brother was nothing but blood and pulp.

In the past she'd always been able to land a new job within days; now there was nothing.

He assured me that there was nothing really wrong with my car.

They'd tell me there was nothing doing. That was the time they got to calling me the Boy Plunger.

And there was nothing unexpected in the identity of the next country to seek refuge from the markets.

Although her family was relatively well off, Zhang Yinghua said there was nothing to be bought by the end of summer.

Yet, what I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within.

NARRATOR: To some of his supporters, the president's change of heart on NAFTA was nothing less than a sellout.

However, there was nothing underhanded in advocating such a program.

I was soon in the stream and my clothes got into a terrible state but there was nothing I could do.

Leaping from the engine, he ran back down the tracks to search for a mangled, burning body, but there was nothing there.

He was nothing but a bag of old bones wanting fresh meat.

He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant.

"Being" to him was nothing but subjectively colored "appearance" .

It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be told.

Finally, after she had spent six weeks in the ICU, I told the family there was nothing else we could do, and I offered to pray with them.

For the Communists it was nothing less than a cosmic art theft, a final, desperate move from a discredited political gang.

There was nothing for me to do but stand up with a shrug.

But to me, while working, there was nothing more valuable than being with her.

Ada: I looked once more down Sally's well, and this time there was nothing there to haunt me.

The hostesses told us not to worry, that this happened sometimes because of bad weather; it was nothing.

His swimming pool was nothing but a mudhole.

Today is Saturday , and I'm screwed again. Tonight , there was nothing else for me to do but to go to him.