Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark stormclouds overhead were nothing compared to the ominous light now shining in Julius 's eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ What were you talking to the professor about ? ’ |
| 3 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 4 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 5 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 6 | What Richard had done was nothing compared to the havoc that Rourke had created within her . |
| 7 | But it was nothing compared to the strain of walking out on to that huge expanse of stage and facing the crowd . |
| 8 | Mind you , mastering the stilts was nothing compared to the challenge of remaining astride a unicycle : |
| 9 | Moreover , in China there was nothing corresponding to the secularization of history in Europe after the domination of the Church ended with the Renaissance and Reformation . |
| 10 | Thus was I blinded to the fact that he is , in fact , the quintessential heavy metal arsehole . |
| 11 | ‘ What I did was I went to the ESP factory in New York , back in 1987 . |
| 12 | Often I did n't get to bed until 2 a.m. , so busy was I adding to the stores . |
| 13 | You did say was I going to the Swimming Gala on Monday and if I wanted to go along with them to go round before , at least the granny said to go round , but I said I was n't sure what I was doing . ’ |
| 14 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 15 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 16 | days and er but And so the father saw that he was safely there and the other Then when he came back he went into the house and said to Duncan er Was you speaking to the old John old John MacGregor and f He said I was that and he said I 'll let you see what my man got , and this was the little bag of gold . |
| 17 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 18 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 19 | She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house . |
| 20 | He knew they were at boarding-schools , but it was something to say to the kids . |
| 21 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Was he referring to the damage she had inflicted on his car ? |
| 23 | No , no it 's a lot better than what it was he went to the doctor and the doctor said . |
| 24 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 25 | My God , what was he doing to the animal ? |
| 26 | In piecing it together afterwards the thing began to go wrong when somebody asked the Butcher was he going to the ‘ do ’ in the Bank . |
| 27 | Was he committed to the role of protector , or did he just love flying ? |
| 28 | How much was it to go to the pictures ? |
| 29 | A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice . |
| 30 | But the big surprise was what happened to the Araglin 's brown trout population . |