Example sentences of "he [was/were] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the only people who did n't like him were his own family . |
| 2 | The men who arrested him were our own , all Merkuts . |
| 3 | Ahead of him was what those who worked there called the Citadel . |
| 4 | ‘ The way Doctor Volkov treated him was nothing less than sadistic . |
| 5 | The Founders now told Pilger that the role they had given him was something less than total editorial control . |
| 6 | Well I asked him was he alright and he said aye , and then I fell asleep , I 've been sleeping from after eight twenty past eight . |
| 7 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 8 | He passed the wooden seats , ducked under the willows , and the last they saw of him was his undulating shadow . |
| 9 | Merrill could see that he was totally engrossed in his forthcoming meeting with Mr Charlton ; one of the things she admired about him was his utter single-mindedness . |
| 10 | With him was his trusty Captain of Owsla , Rabscuttle . |
| 11 | The last Penny saw of him was his small form flying jerkily over the meadows towards a distant wood . |
| 12 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |
| 13 | The last Jess saw of him was his gaunt back with the coat skirts swinging as he disappeared down towards the quay . |
| 14 | But what mattered more to him was his given name : Charles . |
| 15 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 16 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 17 | She did not like to ask him the nature of his work , thinking that if he were something incommunicable , the effort of inventing a lie might crack him up completely . |
| 18 | ‘ That I have cared for your son and loved him as if he were my own . ’ |
| 19 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 20 | Treating him as if he were your own son , your legitimate son . |
| 21 | ‘ I trust you will care for him , my lord , as if he were your own . ’ |
| 22 | He was something professional — a solicitor , an accountant ? |
| 23 | ‘ Well , come down and I 'll introduce you and put you forward ’ — because he was something well-to-do there . |
| 24 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 25 | ‘ We knew from the start that he was something special . ’ |
| 26 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 27 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 28 | He was n't a dominant male chauvinist , he was tender and thoughtful — but he was something more , and what that something was she did n't understand . |
| 29 | He was fair , he was young , he was nothing special ; but with rare insight , Gazzer saw beyond all of that . |
| 30 | Anthony Powell , who once encouraged Waugh to write his first full-length book — a biography of Rossetti ( 1928 ) — has suggested that Waugh revived simplicity because he was himself simple : |