Example sentences of "was nothing but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever way you looked there was nothing but calm black water . |
| 2 | Her ill-humour was nothing but a habit . |
| 3 | He was nothing but glad that Britain won a war . |
| 4 | There was nothing but height ; no fence , no warning of the impending — once-off — leap , nothing . |
| 5 | Yet those are mistaken who imagine ( as , for example , Warnie did ) that Mrs Moore was nothing but a distraction from the serious business of work . |
| 6 | When there was nothing but ash he could crumble with a stick he went back up to his room . |
| 7 | When all these lights had been left far behind him and there was nothing but darkness on either side , Gazzer was still running . |
| 8 | Then there was nothing but dunes , sky , and that endless stretch of wet , glistening sand . |
| 9 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 10 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 11 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 12 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 13 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 14 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 15 | His death was nothing but an absurd , ludicrous accident . |
| 16 | Beyond the castle there was nothing but deep blue sky . |
| 17 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 18 | As I came over the brow , there was nothing but a windswept plateau . |
| 19 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 20 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 21 | Next morning the whole village was nothing but an island in a lake of rain . |
| 22 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 23 | Even in terms of his own quite awesome power he was nothing but an underling in relation to his superior . |
| 24 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |
| 26 | In the beginning , said Shrub , there was nothing but ground . |
| 27 | And then there was nothing but open floor . |
| 28 | Here there was nothing but emptiness and stone . |
| 29 | She said yesterday : ‘ He was nothing but scum and I hope I hurt him . |
| 30 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |