Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 9 | The debate began with a 40-minute speech from the hon. Member for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) which was nothing but a litany of unsupported assertions . |
| 10 | Which was something of a racket , plus Bazooka Joe kept on pulling the plugs on us trying to get us off the stage . |
| 11 | He was filmed , interviewed , and provided with ‘ ghosts ’ who helped him to ‘ write ’ nine books , one of them a thriller called The Test Match Surprise which was something of a best seller in the sixpenny ‘ Readers ' Library ’ ss popular in Woolworth 's in the 1920s . |
| 12 | If you did end up as a German , however , you still played to win and I can remember a kind of perverse pleasure in being determined to win , even though I was a German , which was something of a contradiction . |
| 13 | Nicholson 's own idea was , in fact , to write the first existentialist cowboy story , which was something of a departure from the current genre ; he was surely right in his assumption that Corman might not see the potential , if such existed . |
| 14 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 15 | He is classified as having a patron/client because of the observed relationship with a large organisation which was one among a number of significant clients . |
| 16 | Mr Broadhurst himself was something of an alchemist . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 18 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 19 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 20 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 21 | She was something of a celebrity at the Egon Schultz School . |
| 22 | By all accounts she was something of a beauty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 25 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 26 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 30 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |