Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 2 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 6 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 7 | The famous ‘ secrecy ’ of the Messiah in St Mark 's Gospel , for instance ( 'See thou say nothing to any man' ) , does not really fit into either of Lewis 's categories of raving lunatic or self-proclaimed Divinity . |
| 8 | Yet the accounts of the explorers Armand and Michaela Menise , who travelled the land but a season earlier , say nothing of such an edifice . |
| 9 | ‘ I beg you , say nothing of this to anyone . ’ |
| 10 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 11 | ‘ Say nothing about these papers , Poole , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The Europe Agreements , however , say nothing about free trade in agriculture . |
| 13 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 14 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 15 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 16 | And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all . |
| 17 | I believe I say nothing at all . |
| 18 | You want nothing at all ? |
| 19 | ‘ I want nothing from those people , ’ Sweetheart snapped . |
| 20 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 21 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 22 | Put nothing to one side — God will put to one side for you ! ’ |
| 23 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 24 | ‘ I sincerely hope nothing like that happened . ’ |
| 25 | In particular , it is necessary to go beyond the examples of close relationships to political parties to consider whether the positions some groups enjoy in relation to the political system owe nothing to particular party allegiances . |
| 26 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 27 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 28 | ( It is interesting to note that the right to benefit for 16 and 17 year olds has been denied and these young people either accept some form of youth training or get nothing at all . ) |
| 29 | So the Inland Revenue gets a bonus the company gets a claw-back and the members get nothing at all . |
| 30 | I 'm tied to another organisation for guest speaking anyway , so IMG get nothing of that ’ . |