Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This spotter was positioned on the canteen roof , and to house him was built a wooden structure somewhat like a pillbox with a hinged ‘ porthole ’ in the roof , to give him a clear 360 ° view . |
| 2 | She wanted him to feel as if he were kissing a lifeless rag doll . |
| 3 | He ran his eyes down the column of figures as if he were taking a good look at Voluptua Whoopee in a no-piece swimsuit and whistled ‘ Dixie . ’ |
| 4 | At Oxford he had gained a First in Greats , for which , according to a contemporary , he had worked as if he were taking a chartered accountancy exam . |
| 5 | ‘ Sit down , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said in a slow ponderous voice , as though he were inviting a weary traveller to take his ease . |
| 6 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 7 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 8 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 9 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 10 | One man in the back row is waving his paddle as if he were directing a jumbo jet , while a lady in the front demurely flicks her pencil . |
| 11 | Mr MacGregor , the Chairman of British Steel in 1980 , would not have chosen either place if he were starting a new industry today . |
| 12 | He felt as if he were running a high fever . |
| 13 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 14 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 15 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 16 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 17 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 18 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 19 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
| 20 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 21 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 22 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 23 | " He was packing a small case . " |
| 24 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 25 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 26 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 27 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 28 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 29 | He was stuffing a thick wad of notes into his inside jacket pocket as he did so and I wondered briefly why Stubbly wanted all those French francs ; but then , that was n't any of my business , was it ? |
| 30 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |