Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told her confidante but she had been no help , and how could she approach the Lady Amelia ? |
| 2 | In life she had been no beauty , in death she looked ugly , her greasy locks falling in wisps to her dirty shoulders . |
| 3 | ( 68 ) Ianthe Ambrose could have gone overboard any time after 9.10 , when she was seen to leave the lecture , and on her own statement she had been no swimmer . |
| 4 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 5 | It had been no hardship to sit and talk horses with her by the hour but he certainly had never expected his friendship to be so handsomely rewarded . |
| 6 | I had n't timed the fifty yards but it had been no sprint . |
| 7 | She had tried arguing with the guard at the gate , but it had been no use — they would n't allow her through . |
| 8 | It had been no accident , but rather a botched assassination attempt , which had set Alexei 's father down on Tarvaras . |