Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] no [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 2 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 3 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 4 | Before my first evening class in English I was no nervous that I could n't eat ! |
| 5 | Well I was no bigger than this like and er go to school straight away Dick . |
| 6 | ‘ I was no better than anyone else . |
| 7 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 8 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 9 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 10 | He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain . |
| 11 | With a brief nod , as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance , he closed the door . |
| 12 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 13 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 14 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 15 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 16 | Most of all , she was no wiser as to his involvement with Suzanne Regan . |
| 17 | She was no worse than most recent French Prime Ministers , and her femininity was exquisitely candid . |
| 18 | The residential streets did n't like it early in the morning , the clatter of Midnight 's hooves on their concrete drives , but she was no worse than the milkman , and they were quick enough to scoop up any free dung for their roses , she noticed . |
| 19 | She was no better than she should be . |
| 20 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 21 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 22 | Then she skirted the table , gripped her stepmother by the shoulders , and began to shake her as if she was no more than a rag doll . |
| 23 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 24 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 25 | However much she 'd fallen in love with Rohan , to him she was no more than a passing fancy , to be enjoyed then discarded . |
| 26 | Smaller she grew , and smaller yet , till she was no larger than a monkey . |
| 27 | He 'd have to say yes , because he 's sorry for us , I heard him tell Richard we were no better than waifs of the storm , and we should ruin the upholstery , and be taking advantage of his kindness . " |
| 28 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 29 | And I , it 's now ten days , they 're onto some scam , and erm , I 've , I had a letter from Marion erm , course , well to say they were no wiser and er she sent me some of the |
| 30 | When everything is going fine for us , and God is in quote , blessing us , when our life is flowing smoothly , it 's easy then to have faith , it 's easy then to trust , but do you know , those disciples in that boat , they were no safer after Jesus stilled the storm than beforehand . |