Example sentences of "a [noun sg] he was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a flash he was on his feet , followed instantly by Baal and Set . |
| 2 | Quick as a flash he was at her side , catching her before she hit the ground , his arm hooking behind her knees to scoop her up into the air . |
| 3 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 4 | For a second he was in two minds about it . |
| 5 | For a while he was in financial difficulties , but by 1801 , after Paul 's assassination , he was working again at Tsarskoe Selo for the dowager empress and in 1802 Alexander I , the new emperor , appointed him architect-in-chief to the Admiralty , where he carried out minor works . |
| 6 | More like a grandson than a nephew he was to me . ’ |
| 7 | But then , with a cry of surprise , he found my horse , and in a minute he was on its back . |
| 8 | One week before attending the special clinic , Jonathan had noticed some staining of his underpants and on examining his penis , not a thing he was in the habit of doing , he found that he could express a little clear mucoid discharge from it . |
| 9 | her new neighbour from next door came out to give us a hand he was off taking it back in the house again ! |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , when he was on a binge he was in no shape to have sex , so he brought it in . |
| 11 | I suppose we thought Vic must have said try it this way because Matt and I were already into our quarrel and it shows what a pro he was to his fingertips that he carried on as per normal . |
| 12 | Within an hour he was at the northern boundary of the Waste . |
| 13 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |