Example sentences of "[vb past] he [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 2 | THE Duke of Edinburgh showed he 's still a master of horse at Scotland 's largest carriage driving event . |
| 3 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 4 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 5 | So we sat there and we decided he was obviously a musician . |
| 6 | He thought he was just a working actor . |
| 7 | I thought he was just a friend of Mrs Nowak and nothing more . ’ |
| 8 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 9 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Few thought he was even a starter |
| 11 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 12 | Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago . |
| 13 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 14 | It was only when Jean-Claude came to Paris and was settled in the attic , wondering what to do with the rest of his life , that he realized he was already a composer and the rest of his life would be spent composing . |
| 15 | So he simply made a convincing artificial one to hide his miniaturized booty , and the Vadinamia 's missed it — because when he left he was just the same as when he arrived . |
| 16 | Mr John Bartholemew , defending , said he was generally a responsible man taking charge of his father 's 14,000 acre estate . |
| 17 | He said he was now a broken and sorry man whose life is virtually in tatters . |
| 18 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 19 | There were times when he suspected he was just a meal ticket to her . |
| 20 | But his plump face and crazed eyes suggested he was merely a psychotic . |