Example sentences of "see nothing [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 2 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 4 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 5 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 6 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 7 | At first , in the fading light , we could see nothing but the icy path , the snow-covered trees on either side — but then the flicker of a candle flame caught our eyes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 10 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 11 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 12 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |
| 13 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |
| 14 | Erm I see nothing in the current Bradford U D P which suggests that they are n't erm majoring on urban regeneration , that they 're doing they 're doing exactly that . |
| 15 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |