Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loved him so passionately , and he was so like a god in her eyes . |
| 2 | But he was clearly in a hurry , so it would have to wait until they reached the palazzo . |
| 3 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 4 | His adult pupils would come , possibly at long intervals , to the courses in which they were interested , but he was seldom at a loss in remembering a name . |
| 5 | But he was still at an experimental stage of his thinking , and this enabled his political opportunism to come into play . |
| 6 | Edward 's hopes of the crown had vanished before the gates of Rheims , but he was still in a strong enough position , with Ring John as his prisoner , to insist on a final solution to the problem of Aquitaine . |