Example sentences of "[vb past] he was [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 4 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 5 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 9 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 10 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 11 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 12 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |
| 13 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 14 | Once he had decided to write the Guide Book he realised he would have to do a considerable amount of writing and although he never felt he was a good writer , his unwavering intent carried him through . |
| 15 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 18 | I felt he was an undesirable character . ’ |
| 19 | He knew he was no such man ! |
| 20 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 21 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 22 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 23 | He knew he was a good horseman — no one had dared to tell him otherwise ! |
| 24 | I knew he was a good client of ours . |
| 25 | They knew he was a disqualified driver . |
| 26 | It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man . |
| 27 | Hein — you knew he was a qualified dentist ? |
| 28 | He knew he was a dead man , no matter what happened — it was just a matter of time . |
| 29 | Of course we knew he was a celebrated painter , everyone did , and I think the neighbourhood felt quite disappointed when by moving down here he became less celebrated . |
| 30 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |