Example sentences of "he was [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'eard 'e was orf work wiv 'is back . ’ |
| 2 | 'E was drinkin' pints o' porter , ’ he informed Nellie . |
| 3 | Aft of him was stowage space for a collapsible dinghy , maintenance platforms and a spare propeller ! |
| 4 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 5 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 6 | He had even white teeth , he was hero material . |
| 7 | He was spending money like I 'd never seen . |
| 8 | From 1828 until 1853 he was mathematics tutor of Wadham College , though he was never a fellow . |
| 9 | To judge from the polls , he was failing to persuade voters that he was chancellor material . |
| 10 | Colonel Hoggatt started it in Chevisham Manor when he was Chief Constable in 1860 , then left the manor house to his force when he died . |
| 11 | I think he was company commander . |
| 12 | ‘ Even when he was Institute president , he never let anything go . |
| 13 | Besides Mohill , he was branch representative in Larne , Portrush and Limavady . |
| 14 | He was branch representative 1989–90 . |
| 15 | He was deputy chief signals officer , Western Command , from 1941 to 1942 ; and then CSO Air Formation Signals , Home Forces , in 1943 . |
| 16 | Anthony Butler , who comes from Leicestershire where he was Deputy Chief . |
| 17 | Lieutenant-general Wolfgang Schwanitz , the new head of the Office for National Security , the former Stasi , was asked the other day why he had not opposed and exposed excesses when he was deputy head of the organisation . |
| 18 | He was Deputy Lieutenant for Co . |
| 19 | In 1623 he was deputy lieutenant in Cambridgeshire , and in 1625 , a colonel of the Suffolk regiments defending the coasts . |
| 20 | He was deputy governor of the Mineral and Battery Company , a quasi-monopolistic body , for twenty-five years ( c .1621–46 ) , and a partner in various ventures to produce iron , chiefly in the Forest of Dean , together with Sir Basil Brooke of Madely , Coalbrookdale . |
| 21 | He was deputy governor of the bank 1709–11 and governor 1711–13 . |
| 22 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative group for ten years . |
| 23 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative Group for ten years . |
| 24 | The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art produced his Shut up and Sing in 1960 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , where he was music director from 1963 to 1973 , produced his Excuse Me for Living in 1964 . |
| 25 | Fazle Haq , who had been accused of complicity in the murder in 1988 of a Shia leader while he was caretaker Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) [ see p. 37151 ] . |
| 26 | Coarse fishing though , he was sea fishing , sea fishing . |
| 27 | He was Commissioner Allister Smith , a pioneer of the work amongst the Zulus , and famous in Salvation Army missionary history . |
| 28 | He later abandoned this practice , except for the tedium of commissioned replicas when he was court painter , even though it was almost universal at the time . |
| 29 | But his social position had always required him to keep up appearances , and especially now that he was court kammermusicus he and his wife expected to dress well , entertain their friends , keep a carriage , and domestic help . |
| 30 | He was champion jockey in 1872 with eighty-seven winners . |