Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 2 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 4 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 6 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 8 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 9 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 11 | It was her at the helm |
| 12 | I almost blush with embarrassment , like it was me in the picture . |
| 13 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 14 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 15 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 16 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 17 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 18 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 19 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 20 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |
| 21 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
| 22 | It was something in the air , she decided , some voodoo spell maybe . |
| 23 | Jesus , maybe it was something in the water ! |
| 24 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 25 | It was something in the past . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure , but I think when I studied this in college I think it was something like the average of producers of vocabulary of less than two thousand words . |
| 28 | It was something like the truth — as much as he would give to Ellwood . |
| 29 | It was him with the beard cos they always said the Duke of Windsor took after him because he was |
| 30 | ‘ It was him in the photo . |