Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he opened the bag completely he realised it was a human being . |
| 2 | ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision . |
| 3 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 4 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 5 | The place in which he found himself was a tall grimy building with a long passageway and the whole place reeked of cheap perfume . |
| 6 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 7 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 8 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 9 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 10 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 11 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 12 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 13 | On the island where he worked there was a total repertoire of about nine distinct songs . |
| 14 | ‘ He swore it was the genuine cross . |
| 15 | Towering above Carol and Subhadra he decided he was a clumsy , cumbersome giant . |
| 16 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 17 | He thought it was a great joke . ’ |
| 18 | Coun. Dave Walsh said he thought it was a visible demonstration of the slump in the property market . |
| 19 | The usual family gathering at the Andersons ' was held over until late January as Theresa had invited her parents and brothers and sister to her house for Boxing Day , and Pat said he thought it was a good idea . |
| 20 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 21 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 22 | With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited . |
| 23 | But he said he thought it was an Irish fellow you know and I said well where does he live ? |
| 24 | Born black in the Aliso Project , in the days before it became Mexican , he became a cop 20 years ago because he thought it was an honourable job . |
| 25 | He was standing miles away and he thought it was an aggressive posture . |
| 26 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 27 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 28 | Well , if he thought she was a good-time girl then that was his affair . |
| 29 | He thought he was a moderate . |
| 30 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |