Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | or he was a virgin ? |
2 | What happened if ( as was the case in 1327 ) the new king had no son , or he was a minor ? |
3 | Grandfather Lowson lived with them — he was called Matthew , nicknamed Mather — and he was a character who could tell a good story . |
4 | ‘ You told him you were a ho-mo-sex-u-al , and he was a shit . ’ |
5 | I was just a squib and he was a six-former , very fine chap and took no notice of grubby little oicks . |
6 | Souness played and he was a heavy-set , mean bastard . |
7 | From the age of thirty , according to Foxe , he devoted his whole mind to the study of religion and he was a member of a group which included Tyndale , Coverdale and Latimer who met to discuss the writings of Luther and other Reformers at the White Horse Inn in Cambridge . |
8 | And he was a member of the Independent Labour Party . |
9 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
10 | His London collection was described by Gustav Friedrich Waagen in 1857 , and he was a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club . |
11 | This Board was formed from two previous panels — Quantity Surveying and Estate Management — and he was a member or Chairman of the Board for twelve years , as well as being a member of the Committee for Science and Technology by virtue of his Board chairmanship . |
12 | We , we always , we were lucky we ha knew a man named he lived on and he was a butcher in his rights , his own rights you know , just like and , and but er , me dad 's brother or somebody knew him and , and he used to come and do it for us like , you know . |
13 | And then there was at Bayview and he was a butcher and grocer . |
14 | After all , it was a case and he was a policeman . |
15 | ‘ And there was this one guy and he was a writer and he lost … ’ |
16 | Jack did n't like it and he was a bit shirty with Maurice . |
17 | As a servant , he had to be rushing around , and he was a bit Chaplinesque in what he did — everything was so neat and detailed . |
18 | He had n't used one before , and he was a bit cackhanded . |
19 | He had this really nice cap and it was a really smart cap , I just really liked it and he was a bit of an ugly , well he was n't ugly he was just really gormless and I said erm he must have been about twenty something and I said to him can I have your hat , he said no it 's from a friend , it 's sentimental or something |
20 | But Mackenzie was greatly missed as his devoted service to deaf people was universally acknowledged , and he was a man of great charm and Christian virtue who had many friends among the deaf community . |
21 | But he was impatient to know , for the man — and he was a man , there was no doubting that now — had almost killed him . |
22 | She had been a childhood friend of William Egan and though no one could truly mourn such a man of violence , still she had her loyalties , and he was a man who had known how to trade on them . |
23 | And he was a man of all trade in the end because my grandfather 's like that . |
24 | And he was a man known to Mrs Jones 's daughter Myra . |
25 | Er , he was a lecturer , and er er a couple of fags and he was a couple of cigarettes and he was he wa he wa he was er quite well quite well er r rewarded . |
26 | Like his illustrious predecessor , Bob was a powerful raider in his own right — he finished his first season as second-highest Palace scorer to the great Albert Dawes — and he was a supplier of plentiful openings to his colleagues . |
27 | The man in her life was called Illtyd , and he was a farmer in Wales who , because of his occupation , was not liable for call-up . |
28 | And he was a winner . |
29 | He turned his head , mouthing eagerly , and found the nipple so fast you 'd think it was made of iron and he was a magnet . |
30 | ‘ And he was a killjoy , ’ said Fishbane . |