Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 2 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 3 | He talked , it was true , with a little too much self-confidence , and she could tell that his views were not entirely original , but she did not really care , because they were interesting , and it was something to be interested . |
| 4 | His curtain could be seen from the square and it was something worth looking at . |
| 5 | Their friendship was intimate but Platonic , and it was one in which Mary Trevelyan acted both as a confidante and social support . |
| 6 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 7 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 10 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 11 | But that was not the issue now and it was none of Vass 's business . |