Example sentences of "had [be] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 2 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 3 | There had been nothing at all before . |
| 4 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 5 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 6 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 7 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 8 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 9 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 10 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 11 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 12 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 13 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 14 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 15 | ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ . |
| 16 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 17 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |