Example sentences of "he [was/were] a bachelor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , he was a bachelor and he 'd no staff as far as I know . ’ |
| 2 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 3 | ‘ He was a bachelor , with his own independent identity and a certain control over his life … and loves . ’ |
| 4 | He was a bachelor , already narrowing in his late thirties to the precise habits of his kind . |
| 5 | He further let it be known — in the most careless way imaginable , like a good gun bringing down a bird without breaking a conversational flow — that he was a bachelor , a man of wealth , a friend of the Prime Minister and , in an amiable manner , on the lookout for a secure investment in matrimony . |
| 6 | He was a bachelor with ( largely ) homosexual instincts , melancholy and prone to drinking bouts , but with an enormous capacity for new interests and enthusiasms . |
| 7 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 8 | He was n't married there , he was , he was a bachelor , well a single man , if you like . |
| 9 | Oh I suppose he 's invested it wrongly or whatever I do n't know I I can understand why they did n't come to his rescue , you know , I mean , they 've got their livelihood to think about and he was a bachelor where as they 've got children , or and he 's brothers and they 're |