Example sentences of "he was [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dean Pollard continued in practice as a physician from 1 Shakespeare Road , and it seems , therefore , that he was officially the medical officer to the institution , rather than a medical superintendent . |
| 2 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 3 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 4 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 5 | He was probably the poor mug who owned the shop and his wife was probably out back somewhere reheating his fish fingers for dinner . |
| 6 | It was a feeling she had never had before , not even with Kenny , and he was probably the best friend she ever had . |
| 7 | If this is NOT TRUE then it 's excellent news as he was probably the best signing Wilko 's made ( possibly excluding Strachan ) . |
| 8 | But , say what you like about him , he was probably the perfect bridge between us and a being from another world , especially when that being proved to be as mean and nasty as Argol looked to be . |
| 9 | Lobbying of Napolitano 's followers over the following days resulted in Occhetto 's gaining 71.5 per cent of the votes in a second vote on Feb. 8 , in which he was again the only candidate . |
| 10 | He was just the hired thug . |
| 11 | He was n't the great love of my life . |
| 12 | No , he was n't the marrying kind . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , he was n't the chummy sort . |
| 14 | My God , if he was n't the genuine article ! |
| 15 | He was n't the mischievous sort , if you mean schoolboy mischief . |
| 16 | His name was Ken , and he was n't the right man for me . |
| 17 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 18 | He was n't the only member of the European Ryder Cup team to be under the weather in France . |
| 19 | He was n't the same chap , I 'll tell you that . |
| 20 | But he was n't the same chap . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He was n't the faithful type ? ’ |
| 22 | Dear heaven , he was n't the local lunatic , was he ? |
| 23 | He was n't the imaginative kind , and a man does know how he puts down his own tools . |
| 24 | But he was not the criminal type . |
| 25 | He was not the chief executive of a big corporation but in an uneasy no man 's land between the department and the service . |
| 26 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 27 | To Epitot , there was only one marshal , and he was not the glory-hunting Soult . |
| 28 | He was not the cleverest speaker in the house , a palm which by general consent went to the very Tory Charles Smyth , and the house also contained Patrick Devlin and Selwyn Lloyd and sometimes Rab Butler . |
| 29 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 30 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |