Example sentences of "[was/were] nothing to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 2 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 3 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 4 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 5 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 6 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |