Example sentences of "and he [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was the only one not swooning over Kezia Lehmann . |
| 2 | They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit . |
| 3 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 4 | Queen Victoria 's Consort , Prince Albert , was intelligent and much esteemed , and he was the principal instigator of the ‘ Great Exhibition ’ which took place in 1851 . |
| 5 | Endill would ask Mr Litmus question after question and he was the only teacher who did not mind answering . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To give some idea of just how long Tom Weiskopf could hit a ball — and he was the longest driver of his time — Tommy Horton , who was playing with us , needed a driver and 4-iron at the 17th . |
| 8 | And he was the caring parent , but only for one of them . |
| 9 | His chief concerns were with the conditions of labour and education of the working classes , and he was the instigator of the Factory Act of 18 19 , which prohibited the employment in textile mills of children under ten , and reduced working hours for those under eighteen . |
| 10 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 11 | She had been very lonely before he arrived , with no one to talk to but her brother , Walter , and he was the most taciturn of men . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't ask him for help if I were on a sinking ship and he was the only one with a lifebelt ! ’ |
| 13 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 14 | Lord Willingdon , formerly governor of Bombay and Madras , had replaced Irwin in April , and he was the very embodiment of the ICS point of view . |
| 15 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 16 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 17 | And he was the second Bristol joyrider to die in a police chase this week . |
| 18 | And HE was the one to cry foul . |
| 19 | Chairman Robinson said : ‘ There is only one Andy Gregory and he was the most influential player in our years of success since 1987 . |
| 20 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 21 | And then of course he tells me about punk rock and he was there and he was the meaning of punk rock . |
| 22 | He was a founding member of the people 's Labour Party ( HEP ) which has 17 Kurdish deputies in Parliament , and he was the chairman of the newly founded Kurdish Institute in Istanbul . |
| 23 | In any event I assumed the man in the overalls was the engineer and he was the one who caught my attention . |
| 24 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 25 | And he was the last person Carver needed just now . |
| 26 | The Swede was Bjorn Carlssen and he was the current leader of the European Order of Merit — a brilliant player in his mid-twenties , who could hit the ball miles and putted like a dream . |
| 27 | ‘ Right from the beginning Mr Lewin realised that a robbery was taking place and he was the target , ’ he said . |
| 28 | His last Test ( as a captain ) was the first that his country played against those particular opponents , and he was the only right-hander among his team 's top six batsmen . |
| 29 | By contrast , his work is more widely appreciated on the continent and he was the subject of a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in the winter of 1989–1990 . |
| 30 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |