Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Surrey side he inherited were a few reputedly awkward personalities . |
| 2 | It transpired that during the war he had been a medical officer in the German Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front . |
| 3 | So jury service he thinks is a terrific way of improving the jurors . |
| 4 | Before transferring to the Egyptian Service he had been a Regular Army officer in India and at times his military background reasserted itself . |
| 5 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 6 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 7 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 8 | After a short but successful amateur career he had been a steady winner of golfing titles in Europe and Africa ; had flirted with the American tour in the seventies , but without the conviction to make a real marriage of it ; and had been good enough occasionally to carry the hopes of British fans into the Open Championship . |
| 9 | Uncle George showed me his collection of Preston North End memorabilia , dating from the period 1888 to 1902 , when as a young man he had been a staunch supporter of ‘ The Invincibles ’ who won both The Football Association Cup and Division I of The Football League in the same season . |
| 10 | Soon , someone will ask if the man he saw was a blond guy in a blazer streaked with mud . |
| 11 | The address he gave was a false one in Market Harborough in the Midlands . |
| 12 | The main character in the incident he relates is a black man . |
| 13 | Before the incident he had been a cheerful , confident man full of life . |
| 14 | The lawyer had always maintained that the money he received was a legitimate success fee for the vital role he played in the bitterly fought takeover battle . |
| 15 | The first thing he saw was a buff-coloured exercise book . |
| 16 | With household costs inevitably rising , the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford . |
| 17 | in the shit , his fucking gone clang , this blokes got his fucking nuts and the next thing he sees is a big fucking plaster balls alone and he 's , he 's got up his wife , he 's having a right old night with here and he 's leaving , and he says I do n't need you , I did n't need |
| 18 | A Turkish print worker alleged a Harley Street doctor paid £2,500 for him to donate a kidney to a patient he believed was a fellow countryman . |
| 19 | Like Gesner he had been a big handsome man and his costumes had been lavish and spectacular . |
| 20 | McKenzie was urged to play a season with the Randwick Colts ( under-20 ) and the first player he met was a burly hooker called Kearns , who like Farr-Jones , was unable to win a first XV team berth at prestigious Newington College . |
| 21 | At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months . |
| 22 | I had borrowed ten quid from Joe — later repaid , and the only interest he demanded was a chaste kiss in front of the BBC in Langham Place . |
| 23 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 24 | The Labour Party he remade is a curious pile of contradictions balanced against each other to provide a stable whole . |