Example sentences of "he [vb past] was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ive always liked him , and said that all he lacked was the domineering touch . |
| 2 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 3 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 4 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |
| 5 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 6 | Thomson also wrote Europe since Napoleon ( 1957 ) and a World History from 1914 to 1968 ( 1969 , 1st edn. to 1950 , 1954 ) , while among the books that he edited was the controversial volume xii of the Cambridge Modern History . |
| 7 | At 11.00 he found what he thought was the relevant passage in Vico . |
| 8 | He began to run in what he thought was the right direction , but he did n't recognise any of the buildings . |
| 9 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 10 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 11 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 12 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 13 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 14 | What he wanted was the main force , mobile and sudden and a prize fit for his steel . |
| 15 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |