Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing but [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 | 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 . " |
| 5 | But , on the other hand , the public support such actions encourage can be overwhelming — and surely do nothing but good . |
| 6 | They promise nothing but more of the same , ’ he said . |
| 7 | By now they are well acquainted with the area and its people and have nothing but good to say about both . |
| 8 | You , lady , have nothing but iced water . ’ |
| 9 | Some hon. Members from Newcastle and Teesside have nothing but ill to say about development corporations . |
| 10 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 11 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : O , she may be your favourite as a waiting maid but I see nothing but clumsy curtseys and awkward airs about her . |