Example sentences of "[adv] he was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he was Organisation Man , and Agnes could see why politicians liked having him around . |
| 2 | ‘ Then suddenly he was God , Dad was , taking us to Disneyland . |
| 3 | Suddenly he was ruler of all the Frankish realms . |
| 4 | Since his desk must be in the house , perhaps he was Ven Gajdusek 's research assistant , she mused , and Edita had mistakenly placed the card on his desk instead of Milada Pankracova 's . |
| 5 | Perhaps he was HVA , one of a travelling circus . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps he was Merlin come again , invisible in his magic cloak , looking for the woman who would trap and hold him secure and for ever . |
| 7 | So he was vision maker , now , as well as memory . |
| 8 | So he was Capricorn , was he ? |
| 9 | In the twentieth century er the president who did most to , to develop the office further was , was Franklin Roosevelt , Theodore 's cousin er and Franklin Roosevelt , who became president in , in the nineteen thirties and the time of the great depression , and remained president for , till nineteen forty five so He was president for thirteen years er and his political opponents were so upset by this that they actually amended the constitution afterwards to prevent any future president from serving more than two terms of as president , so eight years is the maximum that anyone can serve as president . |
| 10 | Inside he was Pan . |
| 11 | Yet already he was cadet no more . |
| 12 | But tangentially he was part of that transatlantic wave shaping the British 1960s , with Ginsberg , Laurence Ferlinghetti , Corso , and Burroughs-cult figures amongst the milieu spilling out of CND . |
| 13 | Yesterday he was leader of the Labour group on Wiltshire County Council . |
| 14 | Honestly he was Iris ! |
| 15 | A few days later he was ghost writing his own columns , succumbing to the flirtatious attention of some of London 's most infamous debs , having voice tests for his first hit single , drawing £500 in wages and huge sums from advertising and personal appearances . |
| 16 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |
| 17 | But now he was Scot ( un-canny ) many leagues from home . |
| 18 | But now he was Karr 's man ; part of his special services unit . |
| 19 | Now he was upside down , reaching beneath the web , stroking her bottom . |
| 20 | There was an anxious moment in the first half when he caught the ball at the third attempt , but overall he was sound . |
| 21 | Well he was Dalesman editor , but |
| 22 | Well he was editor , you know , in a a small time a small of er about five or six thousand . |
| 23 | Until nine years ago he was heir to one of the biggest private fortunes in America , comfortably in step with the Gettys , Basses and Mellons , but had to ask for enough money to buy a house . |
| 24 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 25 | Down here he was kwai again , trusting to his instincts as kwai , and , as if sensing this , men moved back from him as he passed . |
| 26 | Now I used to get him along there and then he was sort of in tears but there was kids in the hall , the little hall and then when you sort come in the door , not the main door , the one , the |
| 27 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 28 | But even then he was trouble , you know . |
| 29 | There he was face to face with himself — times six . |
| 30 | Sir Thomas , you see , was so very much a local philanthropist , a local administrator , indeed he was Lord Lieutenant I believe , some time in the ‘ seventies . |