Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 2 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 3 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
| 4 | ‘ Until you put it all together for us , we had nothing more than a report from a cab driver that he saw a man and a woman pushing such a barrow along Holborn and up Charterhouse Street . ’ |
| 5 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 6 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |