Example sentences of "he was a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he was a hard-line Calvinist is confirmed by Anthony Wood [ q.v. ] , who described him as ‘ a puritanical theologist ’ . |
| 2 | She began to respect her Uncle Philip 's commercial acumen ; although he was a swine , he was a clever swine . |
| 3 | Of course they were n't er well off or anything there but he was a clever boy you see |
| 4 | He was a clever man who brought an uneasy peace and stability to Palestine . |
| 5 | He was a clever man and he wrote clever plays , but people still liked Will 's plays best . |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you say he ’ — indicating the statement — ‘ he was a clever man ? ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately , he was a clever horse and learnt easily . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a new name taking over a side whose fans were expecting big things . |
| 9 | He was a New Yorker , for a start , and a Puerto Rican . |
| 10 | Algy suddenly realized that her mother was engaged in an elaborate pretence that he was a New Zealander . |
| 11 | Although he was a first offender and there was no suggestion he might try to escape , because of the nature of his offence the governor , Thomas Hayes , decided that Blake should be placed on the escape list . ’ |
| 12 | Fining Walters £5,000 at Stirling Sheriff Court , Sheriff Reid said he had taken into account the fact that he was a first offender . |
| 13 | Mr Collett 's employers say he was a first class driver . |
| 14 | And er he was a first class tradesman you know , really really made quite good stuff . |
| 15 | But he was a first class tradesman . |
| 16 | And my neighbour 's husband down the stair , he was a first class French polisher . |
| 17 | I want to know who trained Quest for Fame and Sanglemore , he was a first season trainer , who rode both of them to victory in the respective Derbys and who owned both of them . |
| 18 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 19 | He was a six year old child . |
| 20 | Making his first court appearance on Jan. 4 , Noriega refused to enter a plea , on the grounds that he was a political prisoner who had been illegally apprehended . |
| 21 | Ellen said he was a political lightweight whose stagecraft was better than his statecraft . |
| 22 | Mr Justice McCullough said the UN High Commission for Refugees was entitled to its view that he was a political refugee , and so was Amnesty International . |
| 23 | He was a political associate of both the opposition leaders , George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham , and Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ qq.v . ] . |
| 24 | He had lost his eye when he was a young child , and the nearest he ever got to France was a trip to Brighton . |
| 25 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 26 | From when he was a young man , Dr Carrington had suffered from a chronic lung illness . |
| 27 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 28 | You see , Father was actually born in Alberta — his parents came here from Wales — but when he was a young man he went back to visit , and fell in love with my mother and with Wales as well , and stayed there . ’ |
| 29 | He was a young man , about thirty . |
| 30 | She had unwittingly touched a nerve , sending his memory back over the years , to when he was a young man . |