Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could just see by the light of the wrought-iron lamps that he was wearing a shirt with frilled sleeves , and that his hair fell about his face . |
| 2 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 3 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 4 | Mueller had simply used his privileged position to advise the General Directors that he was operating on the instructions of the President . |
| 5 | But I do not know anyone who would willingly die , for instance , of lung Cancer on the virtuous grounds that he was helping others through his taxes . |
| 6 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 7 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 8 | Gabriel looked for his parents — even though he knew by the local accents that he was far , far away from his own countryside . |