Example sentences of "he was [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This spotter was positioned on the canteen roof , and to house him was built a wooden structure somewhat like a pillbox with a hinged ‘ porthole ’ in the roof , to give him a clear 360 ° view . |
| 2 | Supposedly he was in disgrace for an affair with a female student ( the AFPFL , and particularly the Communists , were strictly puritanical ) but he was preaching a stiffer line against the British than any of the others . |
| 3 | By the time he had reached ‘ Who would want to soil such a figure ? ’ he was experiencing a full erection . |
| 4 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |
| 5 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 6 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 7 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 8 | After winning his first two Tour titles in the Piccadilly Medal and the Martini International in 1976 he was to record a further nine victories in the space of the next nine seasons . |
| 9 | Despite the joy she had out of being with him on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , she for one thought that he was wasting a great deal of his time . |
| 10 | Five minutes before kick-off , Leicester goalkeeper Carl Muggleton went down in agony with a slipped disc and Hoult was ordered from the stand , where he was eating a hot dog . |
| 11 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 12 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
| 13 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 14 | " He was packing a small case . " |
| 15 | He was strumming a few chords now , one foot up on a stool , and the silence in the little bar was complete . |
| 16 | Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices . |
| 17 | They left , somewhat sheepishly , and followed Finnan into a tiny , grubby kitchen where he was setting a water-filled pot over the fire . |
| 18 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 19 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 20 | While he was casting a regretful backward glance to the ‘ dear Cot ’ at Clevedon , the familiar towers and spires of Bristol already loomed invitingly . |
| 21 | He fell asleep soon after three o'clock , and dreamt that he was stuffing a red draught-excluder with sausage meat . |
| 22 | He was stuffing a thick wad of notes into his inside jacket pocket as he did so and I wondered briefly why Stubbly wanted all those French francs ; but then , that was n't any of my business , was it ? |
| 23 | Leith knew he was bleeding a little inside , but she also knew there was n't a thing she could say or do to help . |
| 24 | He was killed a few months later and she died soon after her son was born . |
| 25 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 26 | Like the latter two , he was to die a violent death , but that was not in the mind of his flatterers at that time . |
| 27 | The answer is that he was wreaking a horrible revenge for having had his box of leads confiscated that morning , on suspicion that he was attending a job interview . |
| 28 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 29 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 30 | He was swinging a short sword back and forth idly , and stared out across the tree tops with the air of one carrying out a tedious and unglamorous assignment . |