Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adj] [subord] [art] [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 proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
3 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
4 | She disliked the casual way in which he made decisions profoundly affecting other people 's lives — choosing whose tale of woe should be front page news , and whose story deserved nothing more than the wastepaper bin . |
5 | ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine . |
6 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
7 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
9 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
10 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
11 | 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 . |