Example sentences of "he was [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 2 | But he was both obstructionist and very , very sneaky . |
| 3 | In his imagination he was both engine driver and passenger . |
| 4 | He was both conqueror and supplicant . |
| 5 | The people of Nevers , the town of which he was both mayor and deputy , returned him to parliament on March 28th . |
| 6 | But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak . |
| 7 | This period was not one he was particularly expert in , but he knew enough to be impressed by the handiwork . |
| 8 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 9 | He was already King of Scotland , and he had a young wife , Queen Anne of Denmark , and three young children . |
| 10 | He was already master mason to the cathedral and about 1310 undertook the new work of the presbytery , at the joint cost of the bishop and priory . |
| 11 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 12 | He was already rich , powerful , successful beyond anything Swift could have given him , and that meant only one thing — he had not married her to become chairman of a vast investment house , because he was already chairman of his own ! |
| 13 | He was already postmaster for foreign posts ; he now obtained the rights in a new office — the Letter Office of England ; and the secretaries of state , who became ex officio postmasters-general in the same year , made him their deputy . |
| 14 | In 1963 , when he was already Leader of the Labour Party , Harold Wilson promised that under a Labour government there would be ‘ Grammar School education for all ’ , and few in the Labour Party wanted to be seen as the enemy of the grammar schools . |
| 15 | By then , at the age of 43 , he was already number two to the then newly appointed chief executive , as executive director of TSB Bank Scotland and director of sales for Northern region , TSB Bank — directly responsible for the overall performance of 503 branches in Scotland and North-east England and for strategic planning , marketing and sales development for the North . |
| 16 | Oh come on you can be on my side cos it was obvious , like , he was just sort of sat there . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | He was n't love ! |
| 19 | He would n't have needed one if he was n't painting , would he ? ’ |
| 20 | He was n't Dad any more . |
| 21 | At that time the erm there was n't he was n't undertaker . |
| 22 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 23 | It was an appeal and he was not proof against it . |
| 24 | When he was not bowling , his cat-like fielding at midwicket kept an appreciative crowd happy . |
| 25 | It felt rather like swimming under water in a glass tank : on all sides and above him he could see the world , the outer air , but he was not part of it . |
| 26 | Burton had no middle-class expectations , and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to . |
| 27 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 28 | The interesting part emerges when we consider how well each one supported the other when he was not captain . |
| 29 | He was not violence at all . |
| 30 | He was simply power , arrogance and power . |