Example sentences of "[vb past] he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 2 | So we sat there and we decided he was obviously a musician . |
| 3 | I thought he was just a friend of Mrs Nowak and nothing more . ’ |
| 4 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Few thought he was even a starter |
| 6 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 7 | It was only when Jean-Claude came to Paris and was settled in the attic , wondering what to do with the rest of his life , that he realized he was already a composer and the rest of his life would be spent composing . |
| 8 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 9 | There were times when he suspected he was just a meal ticket to her . |
| 10 | But his plump face and crazed eyes suggested he was merely a psychotic . |