Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [pron] [prep] a " 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 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 8 | She was something of a celebrity at the Egon Schultz School . |
| 9 | By all accounts she was something of a beauty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 12 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 13 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |
| 14 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 15 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 16 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 17 | Seen through the disapproving eyes of respectable citizens they were nothing but a disorderly and disorganized rabble , dropouts from the social ladder . |
| 18 | they were nothing but an excuse for idleness ; twelve hours being too many for a man to work underground without intermission . |
| 19 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 22 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 23 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 24 | Walking into a room with Ace next to her was something of a revelation . |
| 25 | The first day we just hated it , but when we got used to it , it was nowt like a prison . |
| 26 | Maybe it was nothing but a cavalry raid . |
| 27 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 28 | Steel City : from inside it was nothing but an overcrowded nexus of radials smelling of close-pressed bodies and metal and chemicals . |
| 29 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 30 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |