Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if a couple are not married , the surviving partner receives nothing at all under the Intestacy Rules . |
| 2 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 3 | Such cynical behaviour and insincerity is a waste of parliamentary time and contributes nothing to democratic government . |
| 4 | ‘ But , Terry , surely we hide nothing from each other ? ’ |
| 5 | But my superior self made nothing of that . |
| 6 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 7 | In the boiling midday sun , the Scots could make nothing of five minutes of first-half possession and conceded tries to Pasikale ( 2 ) and Silolota , the latter converting two . |
| 8 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 9 | But I have heard nothing of this ! |
| 10 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 11 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 12 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 13 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 14 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 15 | We 've heard nothing until two days before it starts . |
| 16 | I mean nothing to either of them . |
| 17 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 18 | PAMELA : [ coldly ] I mean nothing but good . |
| 19 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 20 | The last of these was the excavation at Alexandrov led by Academician Boris Rybakov , which unearthed nothing but ancient foundations . |
| 21 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 22 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 23 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 24 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 25 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 26 | But Beethoven constructed page after page using nothing but this rhythmic motif . |
| 27 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 28 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 29 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 30 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |