Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they sell someone else this week to a Spanish or Italian club ( I assume it can only be Macca or Rocastle ) then they want shooting . |
| 2 | They would n't want someone as little as her . |
| 3 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 4 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |
| 5 | The old capital of the Barétous was Aramits , which is eight miles due east of Tardets , and which once had an abbey but today has nothing very much . |
| 6 | I want something really that 's not absolutely completely dead plain . |
| 7 | You might like to hide something there some time . |
| 8 | She rather thought then that they would be returning to their hotel , and , because she had enjoyed everything so much , she added sincerely , ‘ And thank you for taking me around , and for showing me so much . ’ |
| 9 | Neither has anybody else that 's |
| 10 | Do you think it 's worth writing to Has anybody else any thoughts about ? |
| 11 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 12 | Having set out to demonstrate how , through its understanding of the structure of history , Marxism was in a position to forecast the future , he came to the conclusion that there was no guarantee that history could promise anything better that what had just passed . |
| 13 | I ca n't buy anything yet that 's why I 've gone past . |
| 14 | I 've never enjoyed anything so much in all my life . |
| 15 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 16 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 17 | This increasingly comes to resemble nothing so much as Sartre 's own account of History . |
| 18 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 19 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 20 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 21 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 22 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 23 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 24 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 25 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 26 | Given a military problem , Osbern of Eu and his men resembled nothing so much , Cormac thought , as a starving man with a knife set before a belly-piece of fat pork and an ale-horn . |
| 27 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 28 | I have to say once again that this , once again sorry I told somebody else this , this is the most attractive product we do I believe . |
| 29 | Erm so we 've managed to hire everything so all you 've got ta , you 've got ta buy is your moonboots . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , if you 'd rather do something else this evening … ’ |