Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 5 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 9 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 10 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |