Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 2 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 3 | There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played . |
| 4 | When I took him in he was at such a stage he had to go in in a wheelchair . |
| 5 | He was around all the time . |
| 6 | He was in all the dailies , and you probably saw the TV coverage . |
| 7 | It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing . |
| 8 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 9 | Swift is normally the most phlegmatic of characters but he was in such a state of fluster on that occasion that he missed touch and found Smith instead . |
| 10 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 11 | That 's why he was in such a rush about the will … ’ |
| 12 | I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag . |
| 13 | But in the end he was like all the rest . |