Example sentences of "and [noun prp] he [be] " in BNC.

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1 With Yevele and Wynford he was put in charge of repairs at Winchester Castle in 1390 , and also at Canterbury Castle .
2 As a player for Middlesbrough , Liverpool and Scotland he was Renoir with a razor-blade , an artistic hardman , whose flamboyant style of play was world class .
3 When Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella he is no longer happy with himself or the way in which he lives and becomes very self-critical , he then tries to find contentment with money and becoming a gentleman but this fails .
4 Archbishop Ælfric 's bequest to the king of a ship and sixty helmets and byrnies was a gift indeed , and when he gave a ship each to the men of Kent and Wiltshire he was perhaps being no less generous than in forgiving the people of Middlesex and Surrey the money which he had paid on their behalf , possibly as tribute .
5 At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement .
6 Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them .
7 and I 've heard him say oh can I go and play with such a boy , he said he likes going to Kirsty , Kirsty and Hannah and Kirsty and Graham he 's quite fond of them too and Adam
8 If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way .
9 ‘ We got fond of each other , Francis and I. He was a generous man , a rare thing these days .
10 He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee .
11 He played for Middlesex in the 1950s , but in the heyday of Compton and Edrich he was forging an international reputation a few miles away from Lords , at Wembley .
12 And Don he was a grand piper . .
13 Even after eighteen years at Harris , Harris and Overdene he was , he reflected , about as much in the dark on legal questions as Donald was on medical issues .
14 The honours showered upon him in recognition of his distinguished military and literary career were K.T. , G.C.M.G. , G.C.V.O. , D.S.O. , and O.B.E. He was also made an Honorary LL.D of Strathclyde University , Honorary D.Litt. of St. Andrews University , Chancellor of St. Andrews University and Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .
15 And Thompson he was a grand lad he could do everything near .
16 He was a member of the Medical Research Council 's Burns Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary ( 1942-44 ) , and after serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in north Europe and India he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the West of Scotland Plastic and Oral Surgery Service .
17 He had not worked his way up through his party in the manner of a Franklin Roosevelt and unlike , say , Nixon , Kennedy , Johnson and Ford he was totally without legislative experience .
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