Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 2 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 3 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 4 | By chance he said there was an old cottage up here . |
| 5 | The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sided altercation . |
| 6 | Though not sure whether he wanted to be a painter or a writer he knew he was no Haydon , the fashionable golden boy of the day , the ‘ angry young man of romantic art . ’ |
| 7 | Of course he knew there was no possibility of this , now or when he returned home , for when you were married you never could be alone . |
| 8 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 9 | By the time he left it was the most respected faculty of divinity in English universities . |
| 10 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |