Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing badly wrong with blokes like these -they |
| 2 | There was a sense of urgency about proceedings now ( the fifteen minute assembly time was more than half over already ) so everyone duly dropped bags , coats and shoes where they were , filed into the sports hall and sat on the floor for the assembly . |
| 3 | Yamaha should take solace from the thought that Senna was bitching about the power of the new V12 Honda , later saying he had been misquoted and that there was ‘ nothing fundamentally wrong ’ with the new Honda . |
| 4 | Yet there is nothing condescendingly didactic in Page 's manner , nor anything textbookish about Gothic Voices ' performance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From the experience of the 1920s and 1930s , therefore , it would appear that there was nothing overwhelmingly certain about the success of communism in Vietnam or , at least , about the success of the Indochina Communist Party . |
| 7 | Everyone locally is keen to support their local theatre . |
| 8 | Movies in the new albums , appropriately enough , are present only as jokes , in ‘ 57 Channels ( And Nothin' On ) ’ or ‘ Real Man ’ : ‘ Sound came up lights went down/Rambo he was blowin' 'em down . ’ |
| 9 | There was nothing awry in her mind now . |
| 10 | Foreigners ( of whom there are quite a few at the UN ) can do nothing right for Mr Coleman . |
| 11 | I put it back in the trunk , disappointed that there was nothing right for me to wear and wondering what I was going to do , for I wanted to go out with Sally . |
| 12 | It would be foolish to claim that the unions have done nothing right since 1979 . |
| 13 | Alright then , if you 're not doing nothing right alright then laters , pucker . |
| 14 | If there 's nothing medically wrong , you 'll have to ask whether this training course is really right for you . |
| 15 | There is nothing outstandingly valuable here , but there is much which might be useful . |
| 16 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 17 | She put her finger to her lips and he watched in astonishment as she opened her dressing to reveal that she had nothing on . |
| 18 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 19 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 20 | She had nothing on . |
| 21 | There are yes , you 've got nothing on like your , there , your body is there , you 're running around |
| 22 | Remember how Dorothy L. Sayers started her career in Whose Body ? : with the corpse of a stranger in someone 's bath " with nothing on but a pair of pince-nez " . |
| 23 | He realized she must have nothing on . |
| 24 | with nothing on , Rhiannon confides , |
| 25 | But the bees not only knew the voice of their owner but also his particular smell : one bee-keeper told the writer : ‘ Whenever I go to the barber 's I 've always to tell him : ‘ Nothing on , thank you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We always wore trunks or pants when we went in the river , but just once , I stopped out to wash on one of the river beaches with nothing on , and went in just at the edge to rinse myself down . |
| 27 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 28 | How did I know she had nothing on under her dress ? |
| 29 | Then last night she said she would n't come tonight because there was nothing on — she 'd have a quiet night in her room . |
| 30 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |