Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 2 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 6 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 7 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 8 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 9 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 10 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |