Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 4 | Last on the right was a bathroom and a quick look inside the door revealed nothing new . |
| 5 | Measurements revealed nothing unusual . |
| 6 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 7 | The normal WPC Power Benchmarks revealed nothing special ; it scored just under 12,000 , unremarkable for a 486/50 . |
| 8 | He shot people in the back and expected nothing less for himself . |
| 9 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 10 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 11 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 12 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 13 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 14 | I found nothing untoward . |
| 15 | Isobel found nothing odd any more in public discussion of her breasts and the milk and the way the baby acted during feeding . |
| 16 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 17 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 18 | It was the same old-fashioned type as Miss Tuckey 's and he unscrewed the mouthpiece carefully but found nothing extra inside . |
| 19 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 20 | Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say . |
| 21 | She made no objection to his strange ways , his obsessive working habits were his own business , and she found nothing repugnant in his looks , his soiled clothes . |
| 22 | By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did . |
| 23 | He opened cupboards and drawers , and found nothing suspicious . |
| 24 | As he expected , he found nothing incriminating , Spencer would be far too careful for that . |
| 25 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 26 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 27 | ‘ Umpires found nothing wrong ’ |
| 28 | They found nothing wrong . |
| 29 | I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor . |
| 30 | " Wen you investigated my son Patrick last year , you found nothing unusual about him ? |