Example sentences of "he was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing that struck one about him was the fantastic charisma and this bright-eyed determination , which he has maintained to this very day , ’ recalled Graham . |
| 2 | Behind him was the solid bulk of the blue box , and he walked around it again , still disbelieving . |
| 3 | On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery . |
| 4 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
| 5 | The Soyuz TM-13 flight which relieved him was the first to be undertaken since the demise of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 7 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 8 | Behind him was the stable area , now used as garages . |
| 9 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 10 | Waiting for him was the illuminated Lifeboat tram , on which he made a tour of the Promenade , waving to the crowds and commenting favourably on Blackpool 's modern streamlined trams . |
| 11 | But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 . |
| 12 | Not for him was the formal ceremony of admission , with its conditional baptism and its awesome recital of categorical promises . |
| 13 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 14 | All she ever had from him was the biting lash of his tongue . |
| 15 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 16 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
| 17 | Beyond him was the blank , windowless side of the house , smooth and flat , as if the row of houses had been sliced with a cheese-cutter . |
| 18 | In the sky behind him was the grey shadow of a winged death skull . |
| 19 | To Joyce , the assault upon him was the particular casus belli that determined his general view . |
| 20 | The only thing which bothered him was the old night watchman . |
| 21 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
| 22 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 23 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 24 | Mr. Chaudoir has been in England to attend the contemporary music festival Tempo ‘ 92 , at which he was the featured composer . |
| 25 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 26 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 29 | He was the perfect committee chairman : he loved committee work when it was productive , and it always was when he was in the chair . |
| 30 | He was the perfect child . |