Example sentences of "he [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ’ we now know he wuz the Triad connection , the one who took over the sect an' corrupted it . ’ |
| 2 | He is up and about before his father and he gets his father up , as if he were the parent and his father the sleepy child . |
| 3 | Finally , ‘ Christendom ’ itself has betrayed Jesus by domesticating him as if he were the possession of the church , and by making faith the acceptance of formulae and practices hallowed by the authority of the past . |
| 4 | He had sat in front of her , in the square little room which was used as a study , as if he were the suppliant , and had seen her sharp little eyes , black as currants , move round the room , noting the gaps in the shelves where Father Kendrick 's leatherbound volumes had been stacked , the meagre rug in front of the gas fire , his few prints stacked against the wall . |
| 5 | They never called me nigger ’ — was innocent at first , but then taken up as if he were the provocateur of a national crisis . |
| 6 | In Capital Marx argues that as a result of the peculiar history of capitalism , the capitalist , who is really a parasite on the workers , is represented as though he were the opposite ; as the source of production and the benefactor of the workers . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 8 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 9 | such person shall as though he were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 10 | But Kerrison did n't need to be far out , if he were the murderer . |
| 11 | The men around this table had come to accept his leadership also , more and more as if he were the President . |
| 12 | Molly took a handkerchief and tidied him up as though he were the room . |
| 13 | George , who was to be in charge of the wires , having earlier walked round her as if he were the hangman measuring her for the drop , said Mary Deare would come into her own when she flew . |
| 14 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 15 | He sat up , corked the bottle , picked up his glass , pushed it away , cocked his head on one side , and said in a pathetic , slightly injured voice , as though he were the victim , not Sally-Anne , ‘ There — will that do , McAllister ? |
| 16 | Ceolred is said not to have been a son of Osthryth , so that if he were the son of Aethelred by a subsequent marriage after Osthryth 's death , he would have been aged only about 10 or 11 at his accession . |
| 17 | Truman , who particularly relished a political battle when he was the underdog , fought back . |
| 18 | The highly idiosyncratic style of Witney 's known works suggests that he was the architect of the lady chapel of Wells Cathedral , built c .1310–19 . |
| 19 | The stables were well built but badly ventilated ( surely not be expected in Coleman 's time , for he was the arch-exponent of adequate ventilation ) a duct-blocking luxuriant vine having been trained against the outside wall of some loose boxes . |
| 20 | He was the demon loose at a holy rite . |
| 21 | Hoomey had long ago decided that he was the duff member of the team and knew that the worst score was discarded , and so felt that there was little onus on him . |
| 22 | Over at Galaxy Crossroads 5 , they see the place where Johnson paused to have an Embassy Mild and a can of Fosters , and bumped into an old nutter who thought he was the devil . |
| 23 | Soon after , Farrow is said to have begun making threatening phone calls in the middle of the night , screaming that he was the devil and should die and burn in hell . |
| 24 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 25 | Thibaud IV of Champagne defended his decision to hang a criminal by asserting that he was the devil incarnate ; yet the prince could not prevail against St Bernard 's cry ‘ I will hang this murderer myself ! ’ |
| 26 | He was also , on the whole , for the Khedive on the grounds that at least he was the devil they knew . |
| 27 | He was not the oldest on board , he was not the captain , nor the navigator ; he was the canoe 's spiritual father and guardian angel . |
| 28 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 29 | He was the defence correspondent of his paper and I was n't surprised to hear he 'd served in the military . |
| 30 | MICHAEL STICH last night resurrected a career that had been rapidly going downhill ever since he was the shock winner of Wimbledon 18 months ago . |