Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing . |
| 2 | Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’ |
| 3 | And from each fragment the light darted , white and spurting , a light that broke the dark but did nothing to dispel it . |
| 4 | Stirling 's R.A.F. confidant made arrangements for converting the aircraft but did nothing about telling any of his colleagues planning the operation . |
| 5 | Loopy Lil beamed with pleasure but said nothing as she watched Mrs Hollidaye fill her bowl to the brim . |
| 6 | Later abolitionists , most notably Thomas Mathiesen , have argued that only ‘ negative ’ reforms ( changes that may reduce the debit side of the prison 's legitimacy but add nothing to the credit side ) be encouraged . |
| 7 | The parkland and the distant country were beautifully green , but , as was usually the case , the sky was obscured by a covering of cloud which hid the sun but did nothing to lessen its heat . |
| 8 | As Anwar pointed and explained and waved at tins and packets and bottles and brushes , Changez nodded like a bright but naughty schoolboy humouring the eager curator of a museum but taking nothing in . |
| 9 | I completed a tax return but heard nothing more . |
| 10 | She sees everything in soft focus but feels nothing . |
| 11 | Astronomers in Tokyo took a picture but reported nothing visible , although they now say there was a bright object and ‘ we can not imagine how we missed it ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Well done , Mason , ’ said the stockbroker curtly after Jack 's eagle and Jack raised his eyes to heaven but said nothing . |
| 13 | Bernadette had asked for a sign saying simply ‘ quality ’ which was very appropriate for her appearance but did nothing much to advertise what she was advising on . |
| 14 | They had a look in the river and on the banks but found nothing of course . |
| 15 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 16 | Burglars caused £90 worth of damage but stole nothing when they broke into the Lunn Poly shop in High Street , Northallerton . |
| 17 | Burglars caused £90 worth of damage but stole nothing when they broke into the Lunn Poly shop in High Street , Northallerton . |
| 18 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 19 | Hendrique sucked in several deep breaths but said nothing . |
| 20 | ‘ Fake ’ Intermediates were students who had done the Beginners ' course but learned nothing from it . |
| 21 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 22 | He got his redundancy money but heard nothing about his pension . |
| 23 | Sara looked at her nephew but said nothing . |
| 24 | Mr Wright 's employers , London Coaches , were represented in Court but had nothing to say . |
| 25 | Endill nodded his head but said nothing . |
| 26 | Wang Sau-leyan lowered his head but said nothing . |
| 27 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 28 | I am assuming the £6M will be raised if we carry on in 1988 as we did in 1987 , improving distribution of course and encouraging people but doing nothing to undermine what individuals , churches and committees do already . |
| 29 | Tess was red with anger but said nothing . |
| 30 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |