Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah now ours were nothing like , I mean |
| 2 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She wanted to scream at him that she was nothing like that at all , but was n't she ? |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 7 | Sometimes , these pictures can be quite discouraging and it seems that there 's no way that we be anything like these men and women . |
| 8 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 9 | According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' . |
| 10 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 11 | The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with . |
| 12 | After the first occasion , Timothy managed to contrive other encounters , Topaz never suspecting that they were anything but happy chances . |
| 13 | Examples of pay-as-you-go include the National Health Service , the Armed Forces , the Civil Service and teachers , although it is somewhat of an anomaly that the pension schemes of Nationalised Industries , e.g. British Coal , British Rail , are in fact externally funded , when there is no clear rationale as to why they should be . |
| 14 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 16 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 17 | That it 's nothing but a coincidence ? |
| 18 | Copy it to Andrew and then Andrew knows when the I B I S invoice comes forward that it 's something to be |
| 19 | And of course it th it 's more often done that with the kettle of course , so that it 's it by the time you get to the end of the job you do n't want a cup of tea anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’ |
| 21 | At the risk of having you bellow down the phone to me that it 's none of my business , I think you made a big mistake . |
| 22 | It must be said , however , that it is something of an injustice to him to do this , since his ideas and interests subsequently developed in a number of important ways . |
| 23 | It may , according to circumstances and the personalities involved , be best to fix a regular mutually agreeable day for visiting , so that it is something to be looked forward to and prepared for . |
| 24 | Accurate information about epilepsy is essential to avoid the perception that it is something to be ashamed of or feared . |
| 25 | Perhaps most of all , it needs staying power , realism and a belief that it is something worth working for . |
| 26 | I have n't done precise cal computation of interest , but , erm the rough one indicate that it is something in the region of five thousand , two hundred but I quite agree with his Lordship 's figure of five , two , O , seven , total one is one , two , one , six , three , four , O |
| 27 | But the New Testament writers insist with one voice that it is nothing of the kind . |
| 28 | When the hon. Member for Derby , South is pressed , she makes a clear statement that it is nothing but an aspiration . |
| 29 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 30 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |