Example sentences of "[pers pn] was nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had nothing ; I was nothing . |
| 2 | I felt — it was as if I suddenly knew I was going to die and I was nothing , just sand and dust blowing away . ’ |
| 3 | Outside Danu , I was nothing . |
| 4 | For in all that was said by me , I was nothing , the Lord put all in my mouth , and told me what I should say , and that from the written word , he put it in my memory and mouth ; so that I will have nothing ascribed to me . |
| 5 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 6 | ‘ She said it was the way Miss Harker looked at her when she thought she was nothing . |
| 7 | Of course , she too eventually left my staff to get married , but I can vouch that during the time she worked as housekeeper under me , she was nothing less than dedicated and never allowed her professional priorities to be distracted . |
| 8 | His hand was still firm on her shoulder and the contact changed from pleasure to a feeling she was nothing more than a possession . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was nothing to him — just another girl to have fun with but not take into his life . |
| 12 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 13 | And once she admitted hunger it turned into greed , she was nothing but mouth , teeth , stomach , impossible ever to stop — she was starving . |
| 14 | She was nothing and she was love and she was a voice singing in the desert , full of trust , full of gladness at her deliverance . |
| 15 | She was nothing . |
| 16 | Implexion was sure she was nothing more than a spoiled and pampered daughter of a rich house , as ill-prepared for privation as it was possible to be . |
| 17 | ‘ When she was nothing but a child herself . |
| 18 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 19 | She wanted to scream at him that she was nothing like that at all , but was n't she ? |
| 20 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 21 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 22 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 23 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 24 | In a way she was nothing special . |
| 25 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 26 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 27 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 28 | I know but she was nothing to with the tapes it was |
| 29 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 30 | ‘ The way Doctor Volkov treated him was nothing less than sadistic . |