Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 2 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 3 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 4 | But it was nothing compared to the strain of walking out on to that huge expanse of stage and facing the crowd . |
| 5 | If I walked across his unmarked grave , I 'd know it was him buried under the ground . ’ |
| 6 | That way you see what it was you liked in the first place , and you see it fresh and clean again — like new . |
| 7 | It was you walked up the stairs and there it was all open . |
| 8 | Russia , she argued , was no longer the gendarme of Europe ; increasingly ramshackle and transformed by rapid industrialization , it was itself faced with the threat of revolution . |