Example sentences of "[verb] nothing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the grasses whispered nothing awake , the fetch |
| 2 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , a dependent item is expected to bring to a construction semantic traits not already prefigured in the head ; if the dependent item contributes nothing new , the resulting combination is pleonastic . |
| 4 | Consider the noun phrase ? a male uncle : the trait ‘ male ’ is encapsulated in uncle ; male contributes nothing new , so the combination is pleonastic . |
| 5 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 6 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 7 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 8 | Yet this contrasted oddly with his sloppy clothes , his bare knees and hairy legs , for he seemed to see nothing peculiar about a doctor who behaved like a gentleman but who looked like a beachcomber . |
| 9 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 10 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 11 | Mario and Yoshi may please puzzle addicts , but offers nothing new and does n't push the NES 's capabilities in the slightest . |
| 12 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 13 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 14 | Last on the right was a bathroom and a quick look inside the door revealed nothing new . |
| 15 | Measurements revealed nothing unusual . |
| 16 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 17 | The normal WPC Power Benchmarks revealed nothing special ; it scored just under 12,000 , unremarkable for a 486/50 . |
| 18 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ We have heard nothing definite yet but we are hoping for a spot on Crimewatch , ’ said Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad . |
| 20 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 21 | I 've heard nothing more from him , neither have I asked him yet , if he 's come up with anything . |
| 22 | When , after eight days , Helen had heard nothing more from Giles Carnaby she was bleakly self-contemptuous . |
| 23 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 24 | I have heard nothing disorderly . |
| 25 | We have heard nothing this evening about where the money will come from . |
| 26 | They had seen and heard nothing unusual . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean nothing worse could happen ? ’ asked Betty doubtfully . |
| 28 | When Rune had finished with her , Suzie would want nothing better than to return hotfoot to receive Margaret 's tearful forgiveness ! |
| 29 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 30 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |