Example sentences of "[was/were] george [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of his brothers were George W. Rendel and ( Sir ) Alexander Rendel [ qq.v . ] . |
| 2 | One of Hodge 's advisers was George Z. Williams , born in Korea and the son of a missionary ; Williams was strongly anti-communist and well connected with the rightists in Korea . |
| 3 | The one author whom everyone remembered best was George Bernard Shaw , popular editions of whose plays were running off the presses in the early years of the century . |
| 4 | It was George Bernard Shaw who claimed that Britain was an island consisting of coal and iron-ore , surrounded by a sea full of fish : It took the British to create a shortage of all three at the same time ! |
| 5 | ‘ There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves ’ was George Bernard Shaw 's picturesque way of stating the obvious , but in a messy company liquidation the police may be very interested in the information that is being extracted by the liquidators from sometimes unwilling directors and others . |
| 6 | This was George Alexander Troup ( later knighted ) . |
| 7 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
| 8 | Another man to step forward reluctantly was George Charles Jefferies , a 21-year-old messenger boy , who lived in Castle Street with his mother . |