Example sentences of "[vb past] he was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 2 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 5 | The prioress muttered he was a pedlar , but the real source of the commotion was the corpse slumped across the fellow 's sumpter pony . |
| 6 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 7 | When the offences happened he was an unenthusiastic and below average soldier , the court heard . |
| 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 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 10 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | De Monte was a quiet , pious man who excelled in the madrigale spirituale which he also produced in great quantity , a celibate who never forgot he was an ecclesiastic ; Wert 's temperament was very different . |
| 14 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 15 | Towering above Carol and Subhadra he decided he was a clumsy , cumbersome giant . |
| 16 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 17 | are shorter than everybody else 's and , but this one had a , a cape on with a gold braid which meant he was a big high up one , and he was just absolutely paranoid , I mean they reckon that the Matawa are such fanatics that they are just Greeks , you know they just , you know these ones that just |
| 18 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 19 | Despite Sir John 's brusque ways , I saw he was a well-respected , even loved , lord of the soil . |
| 20 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 21 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |
| 22 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 23 | Once he had decided to write the Guide Book he realised he would have to do a considerable amount of writing and although he never felt he was a good writer , his unwavering intent carried him through . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 27 | I felt he was an undesirable character . ’ |
| 28 | He knew he was no such man ! |
| 29 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 30 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |