Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | Some who heard him were impressed and a few were frightened . |
2 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
3 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
4 | The day I met him in London , he was disappointed because a black comedy thriller with Dennis Hopper and Kyle MacLachlan had fallen through . |
5 | He was unaware that a harassed Mr Dixon , caught between Hank , his parents and the school authorities , had disclaimed any knowledge of Hank 's whereabouts , except to say , when asked by the school secretary , that probably Hank had the flu — there was a lot of it about . |
6 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
7 | He was unaware that a Garda inquiry was being conducted into the allegation , he added . |
8 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
9 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
10 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
11 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
12 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
13 | Waiting seemed endless , he was sure that a guilty verdict would be returned . |
14 | He was better than a music-hall turn . |
15 | He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself . |
16 | He was intrigued and a little disturbed by George 's attitude . |
17 | He was slight and a light yellow colour , with round shoulders , and Martha felt he was friendly . |
18 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
19 | ‘ He was mischievous and a bit of a tearaway . |
20 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
21 | A letter card came from France , but it told them little except that he was well and a letter followed . |
22 | Only he was six and a half feet in his socks , apparently , which tops me by an inch or two . ’ |
23 | He was young and a butterfly , flitting from branch to branch and all the time climbing . |
24 | ‘ He was unruly and a distraction in class and made an enemy of most of his teachers . |
25 | he was articled And a … sorta trainee at |
26 | But he said he was confident that a new offer by City director Christopher Needler to underwrite an increased overdraft will be accepted by the bank . |
27 | He was confident that a letter to the government in Peking would secure us a gift from the People 's Republic of a brace of breeding yaks . |
28 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
29 | Since he successfully sued The Face for alleging he was gay and a hypocrite for denying it , he has attracted a lot of abuse . |
30 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |