Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing vulgar about these hands , not like his wife 's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel . |
| 2 | IN THE crusade to make everyone guilty about everything , there is a new technique : tetranalysis , the study of colour , sound , motion and form in movies . |
| 3 | In summing up the band and its line-up changes , the new album and his move to California , Lemmy quotes a line from Motorhead 's last ballad : ‘ Everything changes , it all stays the same , everyone guilty but no one to blame … ’ |
| 4 | And it was nothing strange : |
| 5 | But there was nothing strange about that . |
| 6 | Moving at top speed , the animal positively flings itself along and then , just as suddenly , comes to rest as though nothing strange has occurred . |
| 7 | I saw nothing strange in his behaviour , but it is evident from the literature that the families of anorexics often include a member who either suffers from a psychosomatic complaint or shows an obsessive interest in food and its health-giving properties . |
| 8 | There 's nothing strange about me . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing strange happened , nothing risky , nothing to make me unhappy or break my sleep . ’ |
| 10 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 11 | And there was nothing strange about that , because he had always waved . |
| 12 | In principle , there is nothing strange in this . |
| 13 | Indeed , this is not surprising , for there was nothing strange or unusual about it . |
| 14 | Nothing strange about that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So there was nothing strange ? ’ |
| 16 | Nothing strange about my match angling upbringing , my heroes , I suppose , were shared with many aspiring anglers of my youth . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing strange about that , ’ Rory shot back . |
| 18 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 19 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 20 | There is nothing covert about this operation . |
| 21 | I just see everyone pissed , or on the Valium , tryin' to get from one day to the next . |
| 22 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 23 | She wanted to touch something , to hold on to something before she spoke , but there was nothing stable , only the hem of the sheet , twisting and giving way in her grip . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's nothing awful , I promise you , ’ Ellie reassured her hastily . |
| 25 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 26 | There is nothing subjective in the act of thinking . ’ |
| 27 | The first was that she and her book would have nothing complete to say to the age until her grandfather 's misspent energy had been redeemed inside herself . |
| 28 | As these leaves do , nothing complete , nothing heavy |
| 29 | If you really want to aid us this time round , tell everyone that . |
| 30 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |