Example sentences of "[noun] he [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 2 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 3 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 4 | In many respects he was the archetype of the ‘ patriots ’ and ‘ public men ’ who played a crucial political role as spokesmen for their localities and ‘ the country ’ in the years preceding the civil war . |
| 5 | According to the gossip he was the Scapegoat in the Wheel on Saturday night . |
| 6 | LAST Saturday he was the ‘ noisy , impudent chap ’ in his family but , nevertheless , a ‘ bloody good kid ’ . |
| 7 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 8 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 9 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 10 | On 12 February he was the guest of the Durkheimian Studies Centre at St Anthony 's College , Oxford , on the subject , ‘ Durkheim , Civil Society and Citizenship ’ . |
| 11 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 12 | From his dark expertly cut hair to his hand-made shoes he was the epitome of the new young man . |
| 13 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 14 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 15 | Of the prince 's bards he was the least , the stray ; but his touch on the strings was no less sure than that of Owen 's court poet . |
| 16 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |
| 17 | Mm , mm , yeah , but I , but the lad he was the , he was a Communist who worked for you |
| 18 | In my opinion he was the League 's outstanding player throughout the season . |
| 19 | But to the Branch Davidian Sect he was the Lamb of God . |
| 20 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 21 | And erm I I w we went up on er To try and get the basic wage increased and er I know Mr he was the er general manager at the time . |
| 22 | He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code . |
| 23 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 24 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 25 | For years he was the dean of biology , and in 1985 he became founder-chairman of Vietnam 's Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Centre . |
| 26 | Because of people like Alan Sillitoe ( it says on the back he was the son of a labourer ) . |
| 27 | Charlie was an employee like everyone else , but in the absence of the owners he was the man at the top … all the responsibility , almost none of the rakeoff . |
| 28 | Over the phone he was the same old Dad . |
| 29 | It is right to say that the applicant asserts that since that time Mr. Tee has not been associated with the running of Winchester 's business , although of course on his own evidence he was the majority shareholder in that company . |
| 30 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |