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 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | The Europe Agreements , however , say nothing about free trade in agriculture . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 8 | It 's no good having people who know nothing about qualitative research applying their yardsticks of experimental science to all types of research . |
| 9 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll write him stating , ‘ Since you obviously know nothing about English literature , we expect you never to quote from it again' . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |
| 12 | I know nothing of political tactics , but I will say this : Having come to that conclusion myself , I felt the only honest and right thing as a leader of a democratic party was to tell them , at the first opportunity I had , what I thought , and submit it to their judgment . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You know nothing of modern soaps . ’ |
| 14 | I know nothing of modern painting , I have seen so little , and it was her passion . |
| 15 | We are represented by men hungry for high political office who will therefore not rock the party boat ; men whose loyalty is to their political careers , not necessarily their constituents ; men who know nothing of rural life , for why should they , nurtured as they were in towns or suburbs ? |
| 16 | But , on the other hand , the public support such actions encourage can be overwhelming — and surely do nothing but good . |
| 17 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 18 | And we 've nothing in common . ’ |
| 19 | By now they are well acquainted with the area and its people and have nothing but good to say about both . |
| 20 | You , lady , have nothing but iced water . ’ |
| 21 | Some hon. Members from Newcastle and Teesside have nothing but ill to say about development corporations . |
| 22 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 23 | The two cases have nothing in common . |
| 24 | In this , especially , Miller and I have nothing in common . |
| 25 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 26 | Our minds are different ; we have nothing in common . |
| 27 | Hence the two highly ‘ cultured ’ individuals who meet at a party and find they have nothing in common to talk about . |
| 28 | You and I have nothing in common . |
| 29 | ‘ I realize we have nothing in common , ’ she told him then . |
| 30 | With a wry little twist to his lips Michele observed , ‘ I 'm rather pleased that you two have nothing in common … |