Example sentences of "he was [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Assheton may have employed the best church architects of his day because he was himself an amateur architect ( he designed a church at Flecknoe , near Daventry , south of Rugby ) and hence may have appreciated the difficulties of architectural design and the ability of talented practitioners to resolve them happily . |
| 2 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 4 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 5 | He was what the 1960s were supposed to be about : rich , successful , well placed in the media , what the cant of the time regarded as classless . |
| 6 | He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser . |