Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the Discourses printed in them are no more than a title , but most are published in full . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm no better than the great tree hit by lightning at Thornfield , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I 'm the biggest and the oldest . |
| 4 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 5 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 6 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 7 | Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego . |
| 8 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 9 | Believe it or not — his was the 15th or the 18th of January too . ) |
| 10 | ‘ You 're no worse than the rest , ’ says my instructor , offering one small crumb of comfort . |
| 11 | You 're no better than a Hitler . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 're no better than the reporters ! |
| 13 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're no more than a blackmailer ! ’ |
| 15 | And when you 're choosing your bag you 'll need to take account of what your metabolism is like — whether or not you 're a cold or a warm sleeper . |
| 16 | He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain . |
| 17 | With a brief nod , as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance , he closed the door . |
| 18 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 19 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 20 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 21 | You have only to read her bestselling books , In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window , to recognise that by temperament she is a romantic and a child of nature . |
| 22 | The residential streets did n't like it early in the morning , the clatter of Midnight 's hooves on their concrete drives , but she was no worse than the milkman , and they were quick enough to scoop up any free dung for their roses , she noticed . |
| 23 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 24 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |
| 25 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 26 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 27 | However much she 'd fallen in love with Rohan , to him she was no more than a passing fancy , to be enjoyed then discarded . |
| 28 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |
| 29 | And I 'll have to get a two look , cos she was a thirteen and a half so I bought a one . |
| 30 | If we forget these differences , then we are no better than the bullies who figure so prominently in this book . |