Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 32 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 33 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 34 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 37 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 40 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 41 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 42 | ‘ There was nothing outside the building — just a bit of rustling in the trees . |
| 43 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 44 | All the studio guys used hopped-up Fenders , and all the rock players used Marshalls , but ultimately there was nothing on the front of the amp that said my name . |
| 45 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 46 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 47 | There was nothing on the seven o'clock news ; she listened again at eight and nine but still there was no mention of the hunt for Rick Lawrence . |
| 48 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 49 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |
| 50 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 51 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 52 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 53 | But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans , burgers and ice-cream . |
| 54 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 55 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 56 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 57 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 58 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |