Example sentences of "he [was/were] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 2 | as though he were the only god |
| 3 | Dawson felt as if he were the advance party for a dawn raid . |
| 4 | Mr. Chaudoir has been in England to attend the contemporary music festival Tempo ‘ 92 , at which he was the featured composer . |
| 5 | In everything he was the perfect courtier . |
| 6 | He was the perfect child . |
| 7 | He was the perfect committee chairman : he loved committee work when it was productive , and it always was when he was in the chair . |
| 8 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 9 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 10 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 11 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't give a fuck if he was the Immaculate Conception ! |
| 13 | Interviewed in the Beirut newspaper An Nahar on Sept. 1 , Aoun called Lebanon 's leaders " marionettes who should be tried for high treason " ; the French magazine Paris Match on Sept. 7 quoted him as saying that the Syrians would only last a year and that he was the future saviour of Lebanon . |
| 14 | When Prime Minister John Major stood up in Parliament yesterday , he was the mere messenger sent at the end of a marital power struggle to announce a victory that belonged to Diana . |
| 15 | He was the genuine article , a caddie who followed the circuit for year after year and carried the bags of two Open Champions . |
| 16 | Of course he was the genuine article , a great champion whose pride would not allow him to give anything but his best . |
| 17 | He was the young boy in the photograph , but over six feet now , with broad shoulders and lean hips . |
| 18 | ( He was the young man who hoped Tolkien would not read from the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings ) . |
| 19 | It is probable that he was the young man of that name from Farnham in Lower Nithsdale , Yorkshire , accused of homicide late in John 's reign , who was arrested but later released into the military household of an unnamed Yorkshire magnate . |
| 20 | Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape . |
| 21 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 22 | I felt our situation had been reversed : now I was the halting beginner , he was the fluent expert . |
| 23 | At the Old Vic seasons at the New Theatre ( now the Albery ) , he was the tetchy Cauchon in Saint Joan and Claudius with the company at Elsinore in 1950 . |
| 24 | Robin Smith is deceived by Mushtaq Ahmed 's googly and bowled , just as he was the one-day international at The Oval earlier in the season . |
| 25 | I advised Andrew Stavanger to have nothing to do with it — as he was the controlling shareholder in the shipping company , all he had to do was to say no . |
| 26 | He was the Technical Editor of The Embalmer from 1982 to 1986 , he was Chairman of the National Education Committee in 1991–92 and is an Accredited Tutor . |
| 27 | He was the episcopal representative of the international commission for English in the Liturgy from 1976 to 1984 . |
| 28 | He was the episcopal representative of the international commission for English in the Liturgy from 1976 to 1984 and president of the Liturgy Commission during the same period . |
| 29 | In June 1483 , to judge by Mancini ( the only chronicler writing without hindsight in this respect ) , Gloucester preferred instead to emphasize that he was the legitimate heir of York . |
| 30 | In June 1483 , to judge by Mancini ( the only chronicler writing without hindsight in this respect ) , Gloucester preferred instead to emphasize that he was the legitimate heir of York . |