Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time at Wells Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1877 and became his father 's curate at St John 's church , Bishop 's Hull , near Taunton . |
| 2 | What an absolute pig he was this evening . |
| 3 | At the post he was three lengths to the good , with Cambrizzia running on to be third . |
| 4 | But this day he was all action , stepping right up to Nick and thumping him hard . |
| 5 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 6 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 7 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 8 | After a while he was sure Mr Crangle was becoming suspicious of his persistent visits to the library . |
| 9 | Earlier in this career he was Assistant Accountant at Inverness and later Accountant at Newton Stewart . |
| 10 | John Mitchell was employed on the building of the Caledonian canal ; his diligence and skill were noticed by Thomas Telford [ q.v. ] and for the last eighteen years of his life he was principal inspector of the roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 11 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 12 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 13 | Harley did n't sit around totally idle ; there were some one-off specials — Hammersmith Odeon and Camden Palace — and of course he was six months working on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's ‘ Phantom Of The Opera ’ … |
| 14 | Of course he was thirteen years older than her , she being but twenty ; but then she would take into consideration that he was the footman and it was a splendid rise for her from kitchen maid . |
| 15 | This is his particular speciality ; when he was at the Oxford branch he was institutional sales manager . |
| 16 | After serving on various eyres and assizes , he became chief justice of the King 's Bench in 1274 and remained so until 1290 ; in the last ten years of the reign he was chief justice of the Common Bench . |
| 17 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 18 | I have the idea he was some kind of critic . |
| 19 | From the early 1920s until his death he was joint editor with H. Duncan Hendry of the Wren Society volumes . |
| 20 | I ca n't believe Mel is the player he was two years ago and he must be getting on a bit now , but we have still got Ray Wallace just incase I s'pose . |
| 21 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |
| 22 | In his leisure hours , Lowe was a linguist and by the time he was 34 years old , he could read and write in French ( modern and Old Norman ) , Latin , Greek ( ancient and modern ) , German , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch and Danish . |
| 23 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 24 | The third time he was eight days in an open boat before they picked him up , near dying of exposure , and his nerve gone . |
| 25 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 26 | By the time he was two Celia was spending a lot of time in hospitals , poor girl . |
| 27 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 28 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 29 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 30 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |