Example sentences of "he was [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was himself a greatly talented teacher , a master of clear explanation and a fine blackboard artist . |
| 2 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 3 | He was already a person of some eminence in Nonconformist circles , too ; he and his Methodist wife had enjoyed the distinction of being married by John Wesley in 1774 , and by 1799 he was himself a deacon in the General Baptist movement . |
| 4 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 5 | ( Thus , like retributivists he advocated a proportional tariff , although he was himself a reductivist . ) |
| 6 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 7 | The potentialities of the new weapons that the Grandmaisonites contemptuously dismissed from their armoury , the machine gun and the heavy howitzer , and even of the humble rifle in its modern form ( he was himself a remarkably good shot ) did not escape Pétain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 10 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 11 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 12 | He had gained his reputation in the mountains of North Africa , but he was what the Americans call a ‘ hard nose ’ with little respect for civilians . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser . |