Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 2 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 3 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 4 | Yeah , whe whe whether or not we consider him to have been a black sheep , then we certainly have erm , rather gone into his character . |
| 5 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 6 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 7 | Most MPs still reckon he has been a fine foreign secretary since his switch from the Home Office in 1989 . |
| 8 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 9 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
| 10 | Can you stop being a black sheep then , did did did he stop being a black sheep when he came back . |
| 11 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |