Example sentences of "[adv] he was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps he was long content for the profitable plundering of England to continue indefinitely . |
| 2 | Soon he was jolly snoring . |
| 3 | Plus he was successful managing abroad . |
| 4 | Well , my dad , my dad 's erm Gemini and Taurus cos he was born exactly on the night like he was born midnight basically |
| 5 | Yes , and an astute decision by Milton 's manager , Keith Stocks , saw substitute Brian Marlan brought on in the sixty eighth minute and two minutes later he was all smiles as he headed home Nigel Mott 's cross to break the deadlock . |
| 6 | But two and a half years later he was front page news . |
| 7 | Twelve months later he was full back on the Cork minor side beaten by Galway in the All Ireland decider , but three seasons later revenge was sweet when Cork overcame Galway in the U-21 decider . |
| 8 | Of course , one time his reflexes had been off , and now he was recycled organs . |
| 9 | And just a word about the goal scorers ; Martin Foyle got the goal today , that makes him well he was leading goal scorer , he goes slightly further ahead . |
| 10 | Well he was old John . |
| 11 | So here he was six months later valeting his clothes on a hot Sunday afternoon when any normal youth would be outside . |
| 12 | Not so long ago Paddy was lying ill in the attic bedroom , now here he was changing bread into the body of Christ and wine into His blood . |
| 13 | Severiano Ballesteros was best placed , though even he was eight strokes behind the tournament leader , Chip Beck . |
| 14 | By half-way he was two metres up on the defending champion , and Lewis must have known that his title was speeding away from him . |
| 15 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 16 | Later , Dunlop was to claim that the payment related to another transaction ; he said that by then he was sole owner of the animal and therefore not due to pay Kilpatrick a share of the fees . |
| 17 | Then he was chauffeur-driven back to his Putney home to consider his future … and his folly . |
| 18 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 20 | ‘ My father , , started working at in 1896 when he was 14 years old . |
| 21 | In a speech delivered in 1976 when he was Prime Minister , Sir James Callaghan sparked off what became known as the ‘ great debate ’ about the quality and role of education in Britain . |
| 22 | The Belfast aircraft and missile plant became a bone of contention between Margaret Thatcher and John Major in 1988 when he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 23 | Jack Robinson took a job with Starling and Allen when he was 16 years old . |
| 24 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 25 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | Joe cited a time when he was four years old and playing at grocery stores with his nine-year-old brother Anthony in the kitchen . |
| 27 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 28 | In a letter to Charles Empson , the Newcastle bookseller , dated 1 October 1831 , when he was eight parts into the Parrots , and Gould , who had overtaken him by this time , was already ten parts into his own publication , Lear complains : |
| 29 | Evans was arrested in August , 1990 , when he was First secretary at the London passport centre . |
| 30 | Egbert 's grandson , Alfred , succeeded as King of Wessex in 871 , when he was twenty-two years of age , and was declared King of the Saxons and of the English . |