Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 2 | Newton transformed the game after Fleck limped off following a kick up the backside and he was given the lone striker 's role . |
| 3 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 4 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 5 | Pak 's power base was in south Korea and he was to re-establish the Korean Communist Party on 12 September 1945 . |
| 6 | Chalmers had been forced to miss the Sunday practice on account of a bruised right thigh but he was given the all clear after yesterday 's training to renew rivalries with the Welsh — the country against whom he was first capped four years ago . |
| 7 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |