Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] he was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zach said he was a good listener and that he was a sensitive being . |
| 2 | Ellen said he was a political lightweight whose stagecraft was better than his statecraft . |
| 3 | When the offences happened he was an unenthusiastic and below average soldier , the court heard . |
| 4 | Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man . |
| 5 | Her new boyfriend was a young businessman and drove a Sprite and Pam thought he was a good catch . |
| 6 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 7 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 8 | Similarly , in the Oval Test , Sobers put in a prodigious spell of bowling , keeping at it because his captain felt he was the right bowler for the situation . |
| 9 | The prioress muttered he was a pedlar , but the real source of the commotion was the corpse slumped across the fellow 's sumpter pony . |
| 10 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 11 | The Porter was smiling , and Peter thought he was a nice , friendly person . |
| 12 | In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in the Times today , the ten board members said he was the best person to lead the corporation . |
| 13 | One of my friends said he was a romantic boy who thought he bore a charmed life , but I argued that this was a superficial judgment . |
| 14 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 15 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 16 | When I wrote to Dr Barnardo 's , I said that they might not approve of money from such a source but the secretary who answered the letter said he was an old Selwyn man and the more we could send him the better . |
| 17 | He was selected because those responsible for choosing the successor to a hugely popular MP considered he was the best candidate . |
| 18 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 19 | Madonna said he was the sexiest man in the world . |
| 20 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |