Example sentences of "he was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was both a symptom of , and a resource for , the revival of Classical Art in the 18th century . |
| 2 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 3 | So he was either a man of great courage , or a great masochist . |
| 4 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 5 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 6 | He was evidently a magister by 1273 ( of Oxford University , according to the fifteenth-century antiquarian William Worcester , q.v. ) , when he was presented to the rectory of Steppingley ( Bedfordshire ) by Dunstable Priory . |
| 7 | He was probably a Greek from southern Italy . |
| 8 | Here , he was probably a nation of one . |
| 9 | These traits in Gandhi were no accident : he was profoundly a creature of the Anglo-Indian interaction , and a worthy adversary was indeed just what he aspired to be . |
| 10 | He was already a couple of metres above the girder . |
| 11 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 12 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 13 | He was already a person of some eminence in Nonconformist circles , too ; he and his Methodist wife had enjoyed the distinction of being married by John Wesley in 1774 , and by 1799 he was himself a deacon in the General Baptist movement . |
| 14 | He was already a member of ecumenical committees . |
| 15 | If you and your gran are as wise as you think you are , you 'll be as nice to him as if he was already a member of the family . |
| 16 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 17 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 18 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 19 | As a 19 year old Flight Engineer , he was already a veteran of 12 bomber sorties over Germany . |
| 20 | He was equally a prey to " harpies and crimps " , the latter now , as he and other trade unionists claimed , paid by the Government . |
| 21 | No harm in him , he was just a bit of an eejit . |
| 22 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 23 | He was just a silhouette against the intense blaze , but she was certain that his mouth was open and that he was singing . |
| 24 | We kept him in view until he was just a speck in the distance . |
| 25 | He knew they were watching him , but he ignored them ; he was just a worker on his way home . |
| 26 | I was n't really aware of who he was , he was just a kind of mate . |
| 27 | I thought he was just a friend of Mrs Nowak and nothing more . ’ |
| 28 | He was just a friend of my mother . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The only time I saw him was years ago ; he was just a baby with his mother . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He was just a rival like everyone else . |