Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] nothing [det] " in BNC.
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1 | For several minutes she had nothing more to say . |
2 | ‘ In these dim November days I resemble nothing more than that poor Creature of RHA 's Fantasy , immured in her terrible In-Pace , quieted perforce and longing for her Quietus . |
3 | Mrs Froggatt organised bring and buy sales to raise cash for the organisation , but after she 'd sent off a check for more than three hundred pounds she heard nothing more . |
4 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
5 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |