Example sentences of "his [noun sg] he was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy was always quiet , even speechless , before ops , but on his return he was a different person . |
| 2 | For his chastity he was a particular favourite of the goddess Diana , who , however , could not save him from death and the everlasting dark . |
| 3 | Cade founded no dynasty , but in his day he was a major operator in what R. H. Tawney [ q.v. ] called ‘ that seductive border region where business greases the wheels of politics and polite society smiles hopefully on both ’ . |
| 4 | Like his father he was a great music lover and amongst the many works he published was a collection of over 300 songs set to music , entitled The Muses ' Delight ( 1754 ) . |
| 5 | Throughout his life he was a committed member of the Church of Ireland , giving generously to local charities . |
| 6 | All his life he was a staunch supporter of the Bible as the ultimate truth and proclaimed this at the famous Oxford debate on evolution . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his life he was an enthusiastic supporter of British involvement in the war of 1914–18 , for which he made recruiting speeches . |
| 8 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 9 | In his time he was a superstar . |
| 10 | Bumping and alarmed shouts rose behind him as he ran out in ecstasy , tumbling heels over head down the last twists of the stair , to tell his mother he was a castle ghillie now ! |
| 11 | A sportsman legendary both during and after his lifetime he was an unsurpassed master of hounds and once , for a bet , he rode two hundred miles in nine hours , on fifty horses ( each going four miles ) . |
| 12 | From 1941 until his death he was a fellow commoner of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 13 | From 1655 until his death he was an alderman of London , and was sheriff in 1657–8 . |
| 14 | From 1960 to his death he was an editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic . |
| 15 | At the time of his death he was the heaviest man in Britain , weighing almost 53 stone ( 336kg ) and measuring 3ft 11in around the leg and 9ft 4in around the waist . |
| 16 | From 1672 until his death he was the mason to Gray 's Inn , London . |
| 17 | In spite of his deafness he was an outstanding pupil , taking the principal prizes in mathematics and science . |