Example sentences of "[pers pn] was nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 2 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 5 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 11 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 14 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |