Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [indef pn] [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 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 10 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 11 | She was something of a celebrity at the Egon Schultz School . |
| 12 | By all accounts she was something of a beauty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 15 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 16 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |
| 19 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 20 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 22 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 23 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 24 | they were nothing but an excuse for idleness ; twelve hours being too many for a man to work underground without intermission . |
| 25 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 26 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 27 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 28 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 29 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 30 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |