Example sentences of "he [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 2 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 3 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |
| 4 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 5 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 6 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 7 | As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim . |
| 8 | He was something of a disappointment to his parents . |
| 9 | He was something of a chameleon , and readily produced pieces in the style of other maîtres , constantly adapting to the mercurial tastes of the post-Louis XVI period . |
| 10 | He was something of an experimentalist , being particularly interested in glanders ( he claimed success in some cases from treatment with cantharides ) and in the circulatory system . |
| 11 | Apparently he was something of an acrobat as well . |
| 12 | Bel-Hathor seemed an inauspicious choice ; like most Sapherian princes he was something of an eccentric . |
| 13 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |
| 15 | Father had been burden enough when alive ; dead , he was nothing but a nuisance . |
| 16 | He buckled under the final , inescapable realization that he had failed , and would always fail ; that the jeering kids , the mocking men , the scornful tarts , were right ; that he was nothing but a turd in the gutter . |
| 17 | Even in terms of his own quite awesome power he was nothing but an underling in relation to his superior . |
| 18 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 19 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 20 | He was himself before the journalists — which the General had n't been — and because of that he came over well , that is unaffectedly . |
| 21 | He made no sound : he was one with the land . |
| 22 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 23 | He was someone from the palace compound . |