Example sentences of "[vb past] he was a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 2 | The prioress muttered he was a pedlar , but the real source of the commotion was the corpse slumped across the fellow 's sumpter pony . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Towering above Carol and Subhadra he decided he was a clumsy , cumbersome giant . |
| 7 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Despite Sir John 's brusque ways , I saw he was a well-respected , even loved , lord of the soil . |
| 10 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 11 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 17 | He knew he was a good horseman — no one had dared to tell him otherwise ! |
| 18 | I knew he was a good client of ours . |
| 19 | They knew he was a disqualified driver . |
| 20 | It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man . |
| 21 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 22 | Hein — you knew he was a qualified dentist ? |
| 23 | He knew he was a dead man , no matter what happened — it was just a matter of time . |
| 24 | Of course we knew he was a celebrated painter , everyone did , and I think the neighbourhood felt quite disappointed when by moving down here he became less celebrated . |
| 25 | He thought he was a moderate . |
| 26 | Even afterwards , when the worst was known , he certainly still thought he was a better man than Mengele ; perhaps even the nuclear physicist Edward Teller ( Father of the Hydrogen Bomb , Wicked Uncle to Star Wars ) . |
| 27 | I thought he was a plucky old man and it worked out for him very well . |
| 28 | Erm Steve for some reason I thought he was a tall man , but he 's quite short is n't he ? |
| 29 | The Porter was smiling , and Peter thought he was a nice , friendly person . |
| 30 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |