Example sentences of "it [was/were] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 2 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 3 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 4 | Willy voiced the philosophy he had learned by experience — it was everyone for himself ; if you did n't take what you wanted , no one was likely to give it to you . |
| 5 | Pete Coleman was caddying for Bernhard , and Pete had caddied for Seve , for a time , so he was thinking it was one-up to them . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 7 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
| 8 | yes I think it was summat like that June |
| 9 | But the money coming in from that A B C erm it was somebody from Grimsby who got into terrible trouble not not problems really with the T P A. |
| 10 | The first day we just hated it , but when we got used to it , it was nowt like a prison . |
| 11 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 12 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 13 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 14 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 15 | It was nothing for him to take the ball off them and stick the knife in it to burst it . ’ |
| 16 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |
| 17 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |
| 18 | Whatever fear of the future I had , I would overcome it ; it was nothing to my loathing of the past . |
| 19 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If the Mother Superior and the nun were thinking the child was odd , it was nothing to what Millie was thinking about them and her introduction to the school and its inmates . |
| 22 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
| 23 | It was nothing to be sent for by the headmaster . |
| 24 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 25 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 26 | Maybe it was nothing but a cavalry raid . |
| 27 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 28 | Steel City : from inside it was nothing but an overcrowded nexus of radials smelling of close-pressed bodies and metal and chemicals . |
| 29 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 30 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |