Example sentences of "he [was/were] really [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A and this first machine , sorry fifteen eighty five not fourteen eighty , fifteen eighty five , fifteen eighty five erm and the reason it was important I mean it 's well before the industrial revolution , two hundred years before the industrial revolution so he was really a man well ahead of his time . |
| 2 | He had this erm He was really a you know , he was really a character , one of the Glasgow characters . |
| 3 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 4 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 5 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |