Example sentences of "he was [noun] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potter thought he was Peter Pan and flew out of the window of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 2 | One member of the audience thought that he was Sam Waterston or vice versa and commented on how much he had aged . |
| 3 | He was briefly engaged as a ground bowler at Lord 's but from 1842 to 1844 he was cricket instructor and groundsman at Reading Town CC as well as being a local innkeeper . |
| 4 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
| 5 | By July he was flight Lieutenant and part of the detachment operating from Malta in support of the operations in Sicily . |
| 6 | Patrick realised that this was SOCO 's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room . |
| 7 | To me he was James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson rolled into one . |
| 8 | Council leader Richard Short said : ‘ He did a good job for us when he was town crier and he just seems to have got himself dreadfully mixed up . |
| 9 | He was chewing gum and the nyum-nyumming of his long jaw sent the tail of the beard wagging across his shirt-front . |