Example sentences of "nothing more [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other men moved in , and between them they tore all her clothes off , an intense frenzy , until she stood in front of them , whimpering naked in nothing more than her flat walking-shoes . |
| 2 | But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ? |
| 3 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 4 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |
| 5 | She heard nothing more than his urgent whisperings , half Italian , half English , his groans and her cries accompanied by the futile protests of the bed as he took her , slowly , confidently and with an expertise she was too inexperienced to appreciate . |