Example sentences of "he was really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact he was really a very quiet and rather reserved man , who preferred to keep in the background rather than hog the limelight . |
| 2 | At heart , he was really a nice boy . |
| 3 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 4 | A and this first machine , sorry fifteen eighty five not fourteen eighty , fifteen eighty five , fifteen eighty five erm and the reason it was important I mean it 's well before the industrial revolution , two hundred years before the industrial revolution so he was really a man well ahead of his time . |
| 5 | He had this erm He was really a you know , he was really a character , one of the Glasgow characters . |
| 6 | He had this erm He was really a you know , he was really a character , one of the Glasgow characters . |
| 7 | but I do n't know if he was a time served joiner or if he was just a he was really a very good handyman . |
| 8 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 9 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 10 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 11 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 12 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 13 | I acted as his assistant and learned that he was really the comte de l'Hopital , a descendant of the duc de Vitré , a refugee from the French Revolution , still occupying the shop opened by his ancestor when Soho was a fashionable and literary centre . |
| 14 | He was really the only opposition to the powerful American golf managers , of whom Mike Martinez was the most successful , with clients in tennis , baseball , motor racing and with worldwide television interests as well . |
| 15 | And because he wa he was really the only one that was in regular work in , in the yard , I 'm sorry well there was another one but still , there was n't many , everybody was short of something some day . |
| 16 | His demeanour however , was closer to the big businessman than the professional comedian , so there was always the lingering suspicion that he was really the benevolent boss who made the directors laugh at board meetings and probably did conjuring tricks at the weekend . |