Example sentences of "but he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stanley Bettinson , footpath officer for the North Yorkshire Moors national park , said : ‘ He knew the Dales like the back of his hand but he was a field man , not a committee man , and he loved to be outside . ’ |
| 2 | But he was a man for the proprieties . |
| 3 | But he was a man who needed to articulate his theories and here he could put them forward , embroider , reject , explore without the uncomfortable suspicion that his detective sergeant , deferentially listening , his face carefully expressionless , would be thinking , For God 's sake , what 's the old man dreaming up now ? |
| 4 | Ted was a great character , a teacher of the old school , a gruff , no-nonsense character , but he was a man of great kindness and concern . |
| 5 | But he was a man , in the end . |
| 6 | But he was a man who liked challenges and this wilful — child — for despite her boasted nearly twenty-one years , to Neil Cochrane she seemed little more — appeared to offer one . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but he was a nome . ’ |
| 8 | He knows that the poll tax was a shambles , but he was a diehard and continued to go to the wall with it . |
| 9 | John is difficult to describe but he was a character , certainly . |
| 10 | But he was a genius and it 's one of his best plays and most pertinent today . |
| 11 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 12 | Neil Kinnock was no Bennite , but he was a member of the Tribune Group . |
| 13 | But he was a bit of a dreamer — so he had to go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh yes … but he was a bit of a joke in those days just after the Revolution : the Georgian peasant . |
| 15 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 16 | Sybille booked a disc jockey who had been highly recommended , ‘ but he was a bit too French for Bernard and Laura ’ , Sybille commented drily . |
| 17 | Neville never was a hippy , he used to hate taking LSD , he used to wear the clothes , but he was a bit too shrewd to fall for that . |
| 18 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 19 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 20 | Hatred and fear fought inside him , but he was a coward at heart . |
| 21 | The Imperial organist Luython composed ricercari for his instrument , but he was a Netherlander . |
| 22 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 23 | The son became King Henry VI of England and France in 1429 and 1430 respectively , but he was a pawn in the game of power politics . |
| 24 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
| 25 | He was crude and shrewd , he was belligerent and boastful , but he was a realist . |
| 26 | But he was a kind man and took the trouble to sit with her and show her the hope in the Bible , the comfort and joy as well as the gloom . |
| 27 | His father 's religious belief was very strict , but he was a kind , honest man , and fond of his sons . |
| 28 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 29 | Everyone else was falling around but he was a wizard with the ball , a fabulous dribbler . |
| 30 | I do n't know his first name , but he was a consultant in some hospital in Carlisle and he ran a backup laboratory near Langstone in Cumbria . ’ |