Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they raised the question of authority only in the most ambiguous terms : ‘ we have yet made no mention of change in authority nor has it even entered our hearts , but seeing that France and the Queen Regent here , her priests , etc. , intend nothing but suppressing Christ 's evangel … we are fully purposed to seek the next remedy and withstand their tyranny ’ . |
| 2 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 3 | These acts , whether in Northern Ireland or on the mainland , in London or outside , bring nothing but feelings of utter revulsion to every British citizen , except the handful of warped minds who commit such atrocities . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring nothing with you , ’ she had advised and , laughing uproariously , told me to keep the taxi window up . |
| 5 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 6 | We hide nothing from him . ’ |
| 7 | Judge nothing by its appearance . |
| 8 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 9 | John Wesley said : ‘ Give me a hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin , and desire nothing but God , and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen . |
| 10 | Fear nothing from our King , I can get you letters of safe conduct , but you must go into hiding for a while . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend accept that universities with a strong research base need fear nothing from the end of the binary divide ? |
| 12 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 13 | Several of my scan pictures are backlit against a screen , but mean nothing to my layman 's eye . |
| 14 | Now that we have taken an overview of the Form method of patterning , I hope that many more knitters will not be as worried that the columns of figures published in magazines and so on , mean nothing to them , since they are n't supposed to in this format . |
| 15 | They mean nothing to me . |
| 16 | ‘ The names mean nothing to me . |
| 17 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 18 | They mean nothing to him . |
| 19 | She 's gone , I mean nothing to her . |
| 20 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 21 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 22 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 23 | Names mean nothing of course , but Malamute was on file for iris , finger and dental prints . |
| 24 | So that we have , I mean nothing of design or anything just short information because I think it 's so |
| 25 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 26 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 27 | I mean nothing like burns into the pot you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 29 | eat nothing between meals |
| 30 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |