Example sentences of "[verb] he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people later told Derek that the man who had first approached him was a policeman . |
| 2 | You did know he was a policeman ? ’ |
| 3 | He was wearing jeans with a dirty sweater and thought no one would know he was a policeman . |
| 4 | Anyway , they did n't know he was a soldier . |
| 5 | He had shared a bed in the mean inns along the way and preferred not to let anyone know he was a woman . |
| 6 | ‘ He mentioned he was a friend of yours , ’ said Dolly . |
| 7 | CAUTIOUS Stanley Mitcham was stunned to find he was a Gold Game winner — because he had never won anything before . |
| 8 | But after checking his credentials they found he was a prize chump — forklift driver Nigel Mansell , from Byran-cum-Sutton , West Yorks . |
| 9 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 10 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 11 | People say he was a bit of a joker . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , commencing slowly what every contrary sense told him was a venture into dangerous territory , the piece of history I had in mind was a defenestration . |
| 13 | Harry decided that the embarrassment this caused him was a sign he was getting better . |
| 14 | The detective was giving evidence on the fourth day of a trial in which Hepburn , 29 , of Alloa , denies that on a Saturday night last October he twice lured young women into his car by pretending he was a taxi driver . |
| 15 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 16 | He had always felt he was a bit of an expert on Gwen Evans . |
| 17 | Shakespeare called PUCK ‘ the lob of spirits ’ , inferring he was a prankster who essentially meant little harm . |
| 18 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd have said he was a liability . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Did I ask your name ? ’ he enquired , and a smile started somewhere inside her because , at a guess , she 'd have said he was a man who forgot nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ No , love , you should have said he was a bit that way . |
| 22 | Constanza 's friend 's said he was a myth . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have said he was a Bank Manager . |
| 24 | It can be said he was a victim of circumstances . |
| 25 | Some of his school friends had thought he was a cissie . |
| 26 | If he had been able to ride one of those he would have thought he was a millionaire . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd thought he was a loner . ’ |
| 28 | He weighed 196lb and , when wishing to indulge in a man-to-man talk ( I say man-to-man because I became convinced he did n't believe he was a dog at all ) he would rear up and rest his forepaws on my shoulders and look down into my eyes , which are a rather attractive dark brown and reside about five feet two inches above sea level . |
| 29 | In fact , you could hardly believe he was a businessman at all . |
| 30 | She tried to calm him , insisting that no one could believe he was a murderer , and asked whether he had called his wife . |