Example sentences of "he [was/were] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 2 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 3 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 4 | He was what the 1960s were supposed to be about : rich , successful , well placed in the media , what the cant of the time regarded as classless . |
| 5 | He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser . |