Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us .
2 Who was it in the red suit ?
3 ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully .
4 And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur .
5 There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed .
6 Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite .
7 Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay .
8 The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left .
9 Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard .
10 Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution .
11 As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone .
12 There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape .
13 There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations .
14 But there was nothing of the old maid about her .
15 There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder
16 He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil .
17 Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window .
18 There was nothing on the seven o'clock news ; she listened again at eight and nine but still there was no mention of the hunt for Rick Lawrence .
19 There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through , the ticking of the clock , the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand .
20 There was nothing in the 1983 statement to alter that ; as Lloyd L.J .
21 And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway .
22 After all , Teddy once insisted on taking a dip in Southend to prove there was nothing in the European Commission 's condemnation of the beach .
23 But there was nothing in the available forensic evidence to prove that Libya was the sole author of the atrocity or even among the prime movers .
24 But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her .
25 There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong .
26 But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical .
27 There was nothing in the original Bill about academic freedom and universities were to be permitted to dismiss senior staff in order to replace them with younger and cheaper people .
28 After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses .
29 She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby .
30 When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out .
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