Example sentences of "[verb] he was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 2 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 3 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 4 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 5 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 6 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 7 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 8 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 10 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 11 | His handwriting was so bad that Mr Sunderland had pinned his composition to the notice-board in the hall so everyone could see he was the worst writer in the whole school . |
| 12 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
| 13 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |
| 14 | A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle . |
| 15 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 16 | I believe he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to live forever . |
| 17 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 18 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 19 | Similarly , in the Oval Test , Sobers put in a prodigious spell of bowling , keeping at it because his captain felt he was the right bowler for the situation . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 21 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |
| 22 | Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man . |
| 23 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 24 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |
| 25 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 26 | She thought he was the handsomest of them all . |
| 27 | Then the Reverend called , with his news about the weather turning stormy , and I thought he was the last person we needed to hear from . |
| 28 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 29 | Did he think he was the only one who could lie and cheat ? |
| 30 | ‘ I should think he was the only creature for whom Lavinia truly cared . ’ |