Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [pron] [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 | Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ? |
| 5 | You were mine for the taking … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 11 | Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 18 | It was her at the helm |
| 19 | I almost blush with embarrassment , like it was me in the picture . |
| 20 | It was me against the known world . |
| 21 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 22 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 25 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 26 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 27 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 28 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 29 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 30 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |