Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was particularly anxious to return to the States before Mark left the company , as he simply could n't face the prospect of having to spell out to the Englishman the compensation terms and pension proposals which New York had worked out . |
| 2 | And she might not like Guy Sterne very much , but he was curiously easy to talk to . |
| 3 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 4 | He was also easy to talk to . |
| 5 | He possessed considerable skill , had grace and power and was strong in the air , yet he was also willing to battle to the last whistle . |
| 6 | From notes and other materials he was also able to construct in retrospect a diary of his parliamentary career , covering in particular detail the sessions of 1701–2 , which , surviving in manuscript form , now constitutes his chief claim to fame . |
| 7 | Now here 's the frightening part : not only was this maniac young , fairly tall , immensely broad and strong , and unbelievably savage and violent , but he was also able to run with amazing speed . |
| 8 | He was also prepared to grapple with the practical consequences of his view . |
| 9 | As it happened he was well able to look after himself in such matters . |
| 10 | He was clearly impossible to live with : erratic , self-absorbed , neurotic . |
| 11 | Delors ' proposals were clearly out of all proportion to that figure , and he was soon obliged to retreat with a lame explanation that he had been ‘ arguing from the absurd to show what it would cost to achieve such a goal ’ . |
| 12 | It is arguable to what extent Magnus Magnusson was personally responsible for the composition of the Cairngorm group and he issued a public statement saying he was most willing to meet with voluntary groups . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman also knows that we have provided more additional resources in this Parliament than he was even prepared to promise in his last election manifesto . |
| 14 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 15 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 16 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 17 | He said he was quite prepared to come to court with the film , ’ the judge said . |
| 18 | But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses . |
| 19 | He was always delightful to work with and very disciplined . ’ |
| 20 | Shortly before Gundovald 's death Guntram had recognized Childebert as reaching his majority : he was therefore fit to rule on his own . |
| 21 | He was very nervous to start with , which was funny because he was enormously self-assured professionally . |
| 22 | He was very easy to work with . |
| 23 | He was very loath to part with them . |
| 24 | As an experienced 40-a-day man for 40 years , he was very interesting to talk to . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The police have told us he was very reluctant to go at first . |
| 26 | They spoke to my old friend Henry Clerval , and he was very happy to travel with me . |
| 27 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |
| 28 | He was so good to look at . |
| 29 | Just as the novelist considered the deconstruction and demythologizing of carefully selected cultural stereotypes to be a politically liberating activity , so , in the same way , he appears to be propagating an idealistic and positivistic view of the literary text which he was so quick to criticize in Sartre 's aesthetics . |
| 30 | Sometimes ( he said ) he was almost afraid to look into the young couple 's faces . |