Example sentences of "he [was/were] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 2 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |
| 3 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 4 | He was something of a disappointment to his parents . |
| 5 | He was something of a chameleon , and readily produced pieces in the style of other maîtres , constantly adapting to the mercurial tastes of the post-Louis XVI period . |
| 6 | A legendary figure , he was something of a benevolent despot : he steadfastly refused to allow labor unions in his factories , but paid his workers a wage above the national average . |
| 7 | As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim . |
| 8 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 9 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 10 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 11 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense , a whisper of conscience hinted , until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her . |
| 13 | He buckled under the final , inescapable realization that he had failed , and would always fail ; that the jeering kids , the mocking men , the scornful tarts , were right ; that he was nothing but a turd in the gutter . |
| 14 | Father had been burden enough when alive ; dead , he was nothing but a nuisance . |
| 15 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 16 | ‘ He was one in a million was Charlie . |
| 17 | He was one in a million ! ’ |
| 18 | Soccer star Franz Beckenbauer thinks he was what in a previous life ? |
| 19 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |