Example sentences of "[conj] he was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 2 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 3 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 4 | It seemed inconceivable that he was of the same race as the two vibrancers sitting near him ; inconceivable , too , that they shared his art . |
| 5 | But now , after his near miss with Hoomey , Nails remembered that he was for the long drop next time — no more cautions . |
| 6 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 7 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 8 | It was n't an enjoyable period of his life , but he stuck it out , certain that he was on the right track . |
| 9 | Erm , once she walked into W H Smith 's and saw her father , the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she did n't expect to see him . |
| 10 | The sound of his voice made her jump , despite the fact that he was on the far side of the door . |
| 11 | The strange thing was they did n't seem to mind that he was on the same terms with judges , cops and lawyers . |
| 12 | Jean-Claude said no one would or could , that he was outside the influential music world : he had not attended the Conservatoire , he was a peasant without contacts . |
| 13 | The official history is that he was in the Communist resistance . |
| 14 | Dedicated work in the nets resulted in such an improvement in his batting that he was among the top five scorers in the Cup with 383 runs at 47.87 , including his maiden century against the Leewards , Curtly Ambrose et al . |
| 15 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |
| 16 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 17 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 18 | At the start of the campaign for nomination , Carter had two great disadvantages : he was practically unknown outside Georgia , and he was from the deep South . |
| 19 | Of course , your coach is Clive Woodward and he was in the grand slam winning side of nineteen eighty was n't he ? |
| 20 | And another time he went quiet and he was in the front room and when I went in he was chewing the leg of the settee |
| 21 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 22 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 23 | The doctor said the baby was a nice size and he was in the right position . |
| 24 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |
| 25 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 26 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 27 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 28 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 29 | He wandered around until he was under the enormous swelling bulk of the fuel tank . |
| 30 | Colin covered his eyes with his hands until he was inside the four high walls , and the door was shut again . |