Example sentences of "[conj] he [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |
| 3 | He buckled under the final , inescapable realization that he had failed , and would always fail ; that the jeering kids , the mocking men , the scornful tarts , were right ; that he was nothing but a turd in the gutter . |
| 4 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 5 | But he had not been able to show anyone , yet , that he was anything but what his father now was : a rich man who did what he liked because he was King and everyone was polite to him . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said he in a tone which suggested that he was anything but . |
| 7 | Never occurred to me that he was anything but Lynda . |
| 8 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 9 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 10 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 11 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 12 | Ellie listened , but said nothing , thinking that if indeed there was a God , and if he was anything like her father , then hell and its bottomless pits would be infinitely preferable to so-called heaven . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 14 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 15 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 16 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 17 | He asked himself whether he was someone like Arthur Benson , the Master of Magdalene , for whom books were a form of escapism from the real world . |
| 18 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 19 | They stood or sat in groups on all the branches around Little Billy , staring at him as though he were someone from outer space . |