Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid . |
| 2 | When he opened the bag completely he realised it was a human being . |
| 3 | ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision . |
| 4 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 5 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 6 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 7 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 8 | He admitted they were a gift from the woman he once loved and lost . |
| 9 | This , according to Wolfgang , would have distinct advantages : it would provide him with a legal outlet for the ‘ voice of nature ’ , which he swore he had never yet indulged , being too honourable either to seduce innocent girls or have dealings with prostitutes ; and a wife would be able to tend his domestic needs — he admitted he was no good at looking after himself . |
| 10 | When Wendell had been interviewed , he had refused to say how many dollars the shindig was costing him but he admitted it was a lot . |
| 11 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 12 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 13 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 14 | ‘ He mentioned he was a friend of yours , ’ said Dolly . |
| 15 | Nutty remembered supposing that Nails would hit a bullseye every time if he pretended it was a policeman he was shooting at , and wondered how she was going to reconcile that . |
| 16 | The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sided altercation . |
| 17 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 18 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 19 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 20 | He believed it was a kind of first-aid package from a life-raft which had failed to inflate . |
| 21 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 22 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 23 | And he claimed he was the victim of a ‘ mystery ’ vendetta . |
| 24 | He claimed it was a mix-up . |
| 25 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 26 | When the keeper had captured the monkey in the net he led the way to a small building which he informed them was the annexe to the quarantine block . |
| 27 | He discovered she was no teenager and Sharon moved into Polanski 's mews house , just off Eaton Place , London . |
| 28 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 29 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 30 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |