Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] but [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There he was , gallivanting around with his ageing tarts — you know , the randy widows on the cocktail circuit who eat nothing but spinach leaves . ’ |
| 4 | They are immortal because of the cool temperature on Earth Six and because they eat nothing but fruit , a cooling food . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Herbaceous borders or mixed borders , or even the island beds of herbaceous perennials which make an interesting alternative , are a standard feature in many gardens , but few garden-owners take the word " herbaceous " literally and grow nothing but herbs in their beds or borders . |
| 7 | Will not the whole matter cause nothing but trouble and tears to him , his Department and the Government ? |
| 8 | Gasifiers yield nothing but trouble if they do not get continual care and attention . |
| 9 | They are brutally murdered yet their deaths provoke nothing but silence . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 11 | Leave nothing but goodwill , Kill nothing but time , Take nothing but photographs . |
| 12 | Mr David Kerfoot said Railfreight International put nothing but problems in the way of his plan to bring raw materials by train from Germany to his vegetable oil factory . |
| 13 | You meet nothing but apathy about education now , whether in the governments of the Third World or the aid-givers . |
| 14 | They were first asked to label their own reading experience of SF on a five-point scale : 1 ( never read SF ) , 2 ( have read a small amount of SF ) , 3 ( read SF sometimes ) , 4 ( read a lot of SF ) , and 5 ( read nothing but SF ) . |
| 15 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 16 | You tell nothing but lies . " |
| 17 | ‘ So he gets everything on a plate and you get nothing but insults and disturbance , and upset because you ca n't help thinking about him for weeks afterwards . |
| 18 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |
| 19 | They know nothing but Florence and , worse , they do n't care about anything that 's not to do with them and their boringly perfect city . ’ |
| 20 | I remember nothing but opaqueness . |
| 21 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |
| 22 | I have to say , I feel nothing but pity for him . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I remember perfectly , and frankly , Dr Grant , I feel nothing but pity for someone who holds such archaic , chauvinistic views in this day and age . |
| 24 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
| 25 | ‘ I feel nothing but disgust that these bombs should be planted at a time and in places where ordinary people are going to work . ’ |
| 26 | You understand nothing but money and making a fine impression before rich people . |
| 27 | I could not argue or explain , or feel anything but fatigue and dismay . |
| 28 | No one in his right mind would ever suggest that our farmers become nothing but park keepers as a result of surplus food in the world . |
| 29 | [ There is an ] exceptional case , in which , though the predicate is the name of a class , yet in predicating it we affirm nothing but resemblance , the class being founded not on resemblance in any given particular , but on general unanalysable resemblance . |
| 30 | From then on I decided to leave all that I had and collect nothing but Avant-garde . |