Example sentences of "[be] nothing [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 2 | One day , while we were sitting around having some coffee with a few other actors , he suddenly said , ‘ Of course The Magnificent Seven would have been nothing without me . ’ |
| 3 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 4 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 5 | ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been nothing like it since the Bible , ’ said an obviously excited spokesperson for the book 's publishers , Transworld . |
| 7 | There has been nothing like it in human history . |
| 8 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 9 | ‘ The country 's split down the middle on this thing , you know , there 's been nothing like it since Munich . |
| 10 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 11 | You know that I love you and am nothing without you . |
| 12 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are nothing to me , nothing , ’ said Troy heartlessly . |
| 14 | I 'm not trying to spoil the romance of prospecting — far from it — but there is a Hollywood stereotype and nine out of ten goldpanners are nothing like it . |
| 15 | Socially they 're nothing without him . |
| 16 | You 're nothing to me . |
| 17 | And you 're nothing like him at all . ’ |
| 18 | It put me in mind of the man I met there , and Ill tell you for free , you 're nothing like him . |
| 19 | They 're nothing like me . ’ |
| 20 | No I do n't actually cos I 'm nothing like her . |
| 21 | ‘ They 'd be nothing without him … and the game would be nothing , either . ’ |
| 22 | I consider the most likely candidate for forgery is therefore an unknown cylinder or an unknown acetate disc — in other words , a one-off , which would be difficult to compare with the genuine article , because there would be nothing with which to compare it . |
| 23 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 24 | Patrick had once remarked that if Joe were to pack his bags and walk out , there would be nothing of him left behind , no hint , no trace . |
| 25 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 26 | The Robemaker had only to exert his will ; he had already clawed his way into the minds of the two slaves with the axes ; it would be nothing to him now to whip their minds to his will . |
| 27 | The shock I got when I found you out again will be nothing to their reaction . |
| 28 | The knack , the trick : there turns out to be nothing to it . |
| 29 | ‘ I have no … merits yet ; and what I want to be would be nothing to you . ’ |
| 30 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |