Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 2 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 3 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 4 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 5 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 6 | The only thing I was him with his poxy trainers on and no shoes . |
| 7 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 8 | Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him ! |
| 9 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 10 | She was something of a celebrity at the Egon Schultz School . |
| 11 | By all accounts she was something of a beauty . |
| 12 | She was nothing to him — just another girl to have fun with but not take into his life . |
| 13 | I know but she was nothing to with the tapes it was |
| 14 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 15 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 16 | And once she admitted hunger it turned into greed , she was nothing but mouth , teeth , stomach , impossible ever to stop — she was starving . |
| 17 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 18 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 19 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 20 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She wanted to scream at him that she was nothing like that at all , but was n't she ? |
| 23 | She was one among many professionals and shares with others the responsibility for what happened . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |
| 27 | She was anything but , of course , but he would n't want to hear that . |
| 28 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 29 | She was none of these women . |
| 30 | She was none of those things . |