Example sentences of "[pron] he [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now 70 and barely able to look after himself he was easy prey for the two con men who called at his home . |
| 2 | Now 70 and barely able to look after himself he was easy prey for the two con men who called at his home . |
| 3 | Reynolds also appears as the central figure in Zoffany 's group portrait of all 36 founder members of the Royal Academy , of which he was first President . |
| 4 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 5 | George veered away from the obvious next question which he was sure Mr Nightingale would n't answer . |
| 6 | During the subsequent ‘ railway mania ’ period he was engaged on proposals for several new lines , including the Stafford–Rugby line through the Trent valley , opened in 1847 , for which he was principal engineer , working with Robert Stephenson and G. P. Bidder [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | The strike was the latest stage in a dispute which dated from 1990 , when Cossiga had first criticized the Higher Council of Magistates ( CSM ) , of which he was titular president . |
| 8 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |
| 9 | Kitson died in 1937 and by 1939 his collection was distributed between the Ashmolean , the Fitzwilliam , the Royal Institute of British Architects , of which he was honorary secretary , the V&A , the British Museum , the Norwich Castle Museum and Leeds . |
| 10 | She dressed him in Viyella shirts and cords ; when I first knew him he was haphazard Oxfam , sometimes a dinner suit , sometimes torn overalls . |
| 11 | The problem is with him he was half way |
| 12 | I had n't told her he was five foot two — she might n't have believed he was romantic anyway . |
| 13 | He had heard of Parker 's wig and wigs — the whole place knew — but never nothing he was that way . |
| 14 | Runciman was not interested and Hughes told them he was busy turning round his company , which had temporarily bombed — an ideal qualification in retrospect . |
| 15 | Yes , it may be , I mean in fact he he was some problems by Gooch because he , Gooch put a man at deep sort of mid wicket or square leg another one back there to stop him hooking . |