Example sentences of "[adj] he [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1972 he was also a dancing master and served as principal teacher until his final illness in 1991 . |
| 2 | In October 1922 he was still a bright and energetic undergraduate with enthusiasms for Dryden and Carlyle . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 4 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
| 5 | Hence his attempt to enlist T. E. Lawrence in a campaign to prevent war with Germany in the 1930s , which ended in Lawrence 's tragic death , and his naive belief that since Adolf Hitler had been a member of the German regiment with whom he had fraternized in 1914 he was basically a man like Williamson who wished to maintain peace at all costs , unless forced into war by the manipulation of others . |
| 6 | At thirty-eight he was certainly a very handsome man , but there was nothing in that to endear him to her . |
| 7 | At first he is just an unspecified ours , a bear ( 1841 ) . |
| 8 | Apart from that he was rather a handsome man , she thought , if you happened to like that type of thing . |
| 9 | ‘ Lots of reasons , the main one being that he was basically a crook with a number of little operations going at the factory . |
| 10 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 11 | He 's alright he 's just a pain on and on and on and on . |
| 12 | I had watched Mr Spenceley judging , so was surprised he was also a competitor ; but as judging is purely on weight and the weighing is done under supervision , this can not lead to any malpractice . |
| 13 | To a few he was a nuisance , to most he was merely a curiosity . |