Example sentences of "nothing except the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 2 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 3 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 4 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 5 | Rooks cawed as they foraged hungrily for food but , apart from that , nothing except the eerie , deathly silence of a countryside in the grip of winter . |
| 6 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 7 | In the silence that followed he heard an owl hoot , and then nothing , nothing except the harsh sound of someone sobbing . |