Example sentences of "he was [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But shadow health secretary David Blunkett said he was disappointed Mrs Bottomley had not announced a full independent public inquiry . |
| 2 | Another MP William Powell said he was disappointed Mr Clarke was still committed to the VAT policy . |
| 3 | He was sorry Timothy Gedge had been a nuisance . |
| 4 | After all , he reminded himself , he was Prior William now and had his eye set on further promotion . |
| 5 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 6 | And he was sure Blanche shared his opinion : she was squinting at the TV presenter as if she were a small but fascinating object in a museum . |
| 7 | Dexter , and he was sure Blanche as well , was left wondering whether Pargeter believed what she was saying . |
| 8 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 9 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 10 | While this was taking place , the deputy mayor spoke about the tradition and said he was sure Councillor Roland Simpson , who was about to take up his second year of office , would soon be discovered . |
| 11 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , said he was sure Mr Chope could reply comprehensively when he summed up the debate . |
| 12 | After a while he was sure Mr Crangle was becoming suspicious of his persistent visits to the library . |
| 13 | George veered away from the obvious next question which he was sure Mr Nightingale would n't answer . |
| 14 | After watching some of Ali 's films , a London neurologist said he was convinced Ali had brain damage . |
| 15 | Grant 's heart leapt into his mouth and he was convinced Larsen was going to lose his nerve , then his grip on the rope , to plummet down to an unthinkable death . |
| 16 | She dressed him in Viyella shirts and cords ; when I first knew him he was haphazard Oxfam , sometimes a dinner suit , sometimes torn overalls . |
| 17 | One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home . |
| 18 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 19 | He was unlike Tait or Rayleigh or J. J. Thomson in that he did not have the useful start in scientific life of a Cambridge degree , or indeed any degree . |
| 20 | By the time he was two Celia was spending a lot of time in hospitals , poor girl . |
| 21 | ‘ He was one George Howard Foster , known in the music halls as the Great Foster . |
| 22 | But Hermens said he was confident Krabbe would be cleared after he had talked to leading athletics officials and heard about another report from the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) which also classifies the drug as a stimulant . |
| 23 | While many managers are increasingly concerned at recording unmet need , both how to do it and whether they should at all , he was confident Dorset has come up with a method which makes it a positive experience for staff and service users and , hopefully , avoids potential legal pitfalls . |
| 24 | He said they were facing particularly strong competition from a Korean consortium , but he was confident Cleveland 's reputation for reliability would prove the decisive factor . |
| 25 | Cnut inherited this alliance , but Norway was lost to Olaf Haraldsson as he was conquering England , and Denmark may have had to be left to his brother Harald . |
| 26 | The Spirit urged Jesus into the desert , where he resisted the temptations of the Devil , who did not seem to know that he was tempting God himself . |
| 27 | In a reserved judgment , the judge said he was satisfied Connolly had been in the process of making the bomb , and that he had been in control of the munitions found at the other house , some of which were devices only used by the IRA . |
| 28 | But the Judge said he was satisfied Brady was unlawfully evicted from his bedsit on Oatlands Road , but he added he was also satisfied that had the landlord gone to court to get him out he would have been successful . |
| 29 | The judge said he was satisfied BC would ‘ take note ’ of the miners ' concerns and the assurances given would be carried out . |
| 30 | He was old Spain , aristocratic and severe , a tremendous hauteur about his face . |