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Example sentences for "nothing had"

  • After the pull they walked up, and Tom as usual led the way, as if nothing had happened, into "The Choughs.

  • The stranger acknowledged the interruption by one of his polite bows, and submerged Miss Garth in his next sentence as if nothing had happened.

  • That one discovery shook the housekeeper's hold on her master as nothing had shaken it yet.

  • She met Magdalen, later in the day, as if nothing had happened: no formal reconciliation took place between them.

  • Mrs. Wragge, falling headlong into the snare, and darting at the parcel as eagerly as if nothing had happened.

  • Here her past practice in the Entertainment came to her rescue, and urged her to go on instantly in Miss Garth's voice as if nothing had happened.

  • Miriam rose and went up to him as he stood before his easel, somewhat pale, but as collected as if nothing had happened.

  • She had left me plunged in apathetic despondency; on seeing me chatting with her brother in as free and friendly a fashion as if nothing had happened, she looked bewildered.

  • But I was not going to be discomposed by such a trifle, and I parsed as if nothing had occurred.

  • She entered the room quietly, sat down on the sofa, took a book from the table, looked listlessly over it, and spoke calmly as if nothing had occurred.

  • I'll just send word back by the servant that you had started before the note arrived, but that you shall have it as soon as you return; and you just cast up there as if nothing had happened.

  • Then the provoking part was, that the obstinate animal, after having done all the mischief, would just set to to eat as if nothing had happened.

  • Would she receive him with her usual smile, and ask where he had been and what he had seen, and if the Musgraves had enjoyed it, exactly as if nothing had happened?

  • But now here was the end: nothing had happened, the world was swinging on in space in its old careless way, and Elinor was going--going away for ever and ever.

  • Mamma takes me in, you know, just as if nothing had happened.

  • He would say nothing, try to look as if nothing had passed, and wait to see if any explanation would come.

  • When the deed was done, every one retired, and the town was as quiet as if nothing had occurred.

  • Moggy and her husband continued their course as if nothing had happened, and arrived at the house of Nancy Corbett, who had, as may be supposed, changed her lodgings and kept out of sight of Vanslyperken.

  • John Ford stood at the gate motionless, indifferent--nothing had dawned on him as yet.

  • And all through dinner he sat thinking it over, and talking as if nothing had happened; so that he hardly spoke.

  • Let's begin again, as if nothing had been.

  • Nothing had perhaps so disconcerted Lady Valleys as his want of behaviour in regard to women.

  • Next morning, remorselessly carrying out that plan, she forced herself to smile and talk as if nothing had happened, watching the relief in his face, his obvious delight at the change, with a fearful aching in her heart.

  • Except Eros and Plutus, who seem as usual, and the old Fates, who go on spinning as if nothing had happened, none of us expects to last for another ten years.

  • It is even added that he fell between Eulogius and Eucherius, who had been arguing all the time respecting the merits of their bells, and resumed his share in the discussion as if nothing had happened.

  • In the evening the queen again questioned the light: it made the same answer; nothing had altered; the beacon was always one of hope.

  • He vainly endeavoured to smile and to look as if nothing had happened, his agitation betrayed him, and he was obliged to retire, after desiring a herald to announce that he wished the banquet to continue.

  • Stromboli of the Primadonna, as if nothing had happened.

  • The stage itself was not dark yet, and the carpenters were putting away the scenery of the last act as methodically as if nothing had happened.

  • Some days afterward Pompadour, Valef, Laval, and Malezieux went out of prison in their turn, and began again to pay their court to Madame de Maine, as if nothing had happened.

  • And the two friends shook hands as if nothing had passed.

  • Therefore he set himself to his work, apparently as if nothing had happened, but really in a state of moral perturbation impossible to describe.

  • He then reappeared, grave and calm, as if nothing had happened.

  • No doubt Antonia's unexpected loss touches him very keenly, but I should bet that he'll be going on in his usual jog trot to-morrow as if nothing had happened.

  • And it turned out very much as the Professor had expected: Krespel appeared next morning very much as if nothing had happened.

  • Qasiagssaq, to frighten her, and went on as if nothing had happened.

  • And after that he went about as if nothing had happened.

  • And after that Qasiagssaq went about as if nothing had happened.

  • She had the manner of keeping up an appearance of going on as if nothing had happened; as if that thing were left behind--frosted over.

  • She went right on, almost as if nothing had happened.

  • But that personage kept carefully out of his way until the first burst of indignation against him had subsided, and after a time began to address Eric as if nothing had happened.

  • He talked as if nothing had happened, and tried to turn his friend's thoughts to more pleasant subjects.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing had" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carrying away; miles per; moral action; nothing about; nothing better; nothing but; nothing came; nothing doubting; nothing except; nothing further; nothing left; nothing less; nothing remains; nothing remarkable; nothing shall; nothing short; nothing should; nothing will; nothing wrong; petite maison; puzzled expression; remain behind; sailing vessels; terrestrial gravity; worked hard; would haue