Example sentences of "he [is] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Gorbachev continues to behave as if the middle ground were still there , because without it he is nothing . |
| 2 | If a person is ‘ torn ’ between opinions , unable to ‘ make up ’ his mind , or if he is ‘ up in the air ’ over something and unsure which side he should ‘ come down on ’ , or if he is furiously ‘ debating ’ with himself or ‘ hanging back ’ , or weighing up his ‘ reservations ’ , he is nothing if not ‘ in two minds ’ . |
| 3 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 4 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 5 | But he is nothing of a nostalgic . |
| 6 | Daughter of a brilliant and beautiful mother , who died giving birth , the gauche and unconfident Catherine Sloper lives in the shadow of her rich father 's thinly veiled contempt … when the young handsome and charming Morris Townsend falls in love with her , the father thinks he is nothing but a fortune seeking bounder . |
| 7 | Perhaps the snakes too are now familiar with Laverne and he is nothing more than an accepted local nuisance . |
| 8 | But I told you , he is nothing to me . ’ |
| 9 | He 'll want you to know because he 's nothing to hide . |
| 10 | He says he 's nothing but a nuisance . |
| 11 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
| 12 | He has been known to refuse autographs by pleading that he 's nothing special and really does n't warrant such attention . |
| 13 | And he said , but he 's nothing to do with Surrealism , which I expect is true that he did n't belong to the party but then perhaps Spaniards are , in any case , basically surrealist . |
| 14 | Without self-respect and a sense of satisfaction in his work , a man 's nothing , and if he 's nothing , he 's not worth loving . " |
| 15 | ‘ He 's nothing , a little silent man , not much there , I think . |
| 16 | He 's nothing . |
| 17 | Then he can go to bed if he 's nothing to do with it . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's nothing to me , nothing ! ’ |
| 19 | I think that Wilko should give ‘ fat Frank ’ a chance — he 's nothing to lose . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's nothing to me and I 'm sick of you prying into my personal life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 22 | He 's not an officer of the constitut he is n't a treasurer , he is n't secretary , he 's , he 's nothing as far the constituency 's concerned . |
| 23 | the first night sh we run her down to meet him right , me and him , I said oh go on Donna , said he 's a nice bloke , he 's not nice looking in fact he 's nothing , you know , nice looking at all but he 's a nice bloke , he got a , you know , bit of money and all that . |
| 24 | Yeah he 's not bad , he 's nothing special though . |