Example sentences of "he [was/were] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a cadet at the Imperial Military Academy in Moscow when he heard that the emperor , Tsar Nicholas 11 , was under house arrest . |
| 2 | He knows the Getty well as he was a scholar at the Center in 1988–89 , when his predecessor , Kurt Forster , who has left to be Professor of Art and Architectural history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , was en poste . |
| 3 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 4 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 5 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 6 | A careful user and comparer of sources , he often draws attention to discrepancies between them , and sometimes criticises their reliability , noting , for example , that Cædwalla of Wessex 's confirmation of a Glastonbury grant was signed with a cross although he was a pagan at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 8 | He was a student at the teacher 's training college where my mother , in her thirty-sixth year , took a job as a lecturer . |
| 9 | And he was a student at the time and he had n't got a lot of money and he took what was it she said ? |