Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 3 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 4 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time . |
| 7 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 9 | There was no one else : Cal 's two older brothers worked away — one was something in The City . |
| 10 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 11 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 12 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 13 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 14 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 15 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 16 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 17 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 18 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 19 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 20 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 21 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 22 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 23 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 24 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 25 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 26 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 27 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 28 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 29 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |
| 30 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |