Example sentences of "he [was/were] [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 | Damn near had to get married while he were still apprentice . |
| 3 | But he was both obstructionist and very , very sneaky . |
| 4 | In his imagination he was both engine driver and passenger . |
| 5 | He was both conqueror and supplicant . |
| 6 | The people of Nevers , the town of which he was both mayor and deputy , returned him to parliament on March 28th . |
| 7 | But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak . |
| 8 | This period was not one he was particularly expert in , but he knew enough to be impressed by the handiwork . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was already King of Scotland , and he had a young wife , Queen Anne of Denmark , and three young children . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Oh come on you can be on my side cos it was obvious , like , he was just sort of sat there . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | He was simply power , arrogance and power . |
| 20 | He was nearly crying was n't he . |
| 21 | When the Friar reached the point where the horses had been caught and where Marian and Hugh escaped into the woods he was barely half-an-hour behind them . |
| 22 | ParcPlace Systems , the object oriented specialist , has appointed William Lyons as its new president and CEO : he was formerly chairman of the board and CEO at Ashton-Tate Corp before the merger with Borland International . |
| 23 | " I deny " , wrote the most important eighteenth-century commentator on the subject , " that anyone can reach a decision through duly constituted judicial procedure in regard to the life , property , and reputation of the ambassador except the prince who sent him or the magistrate to whose jurisdiction he was formerly subject " . |
| 24 | He was formerly secretary to the National Trust . |
| 25 | He was formerly president of Harcourt Brace 's College Publishers and more recently director , strategic planning and development , and senior vice-president , for the Harcourt Brace & Co Educational Publishing Group . |
| 26 | He was formerly professor of Religious Affairs at Makerere University , Kampala . |
| 27 | He was formerly district manager and project manager with the National & Provincial Building Society . |
| 28 | He was formerly Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading and for nine years until the end of 1986 he was Director of the National Consumer Council . |
| 29 | Sir Ralph Sadler , for instance , was not only Secretary of State from 1540 to 1543 , he was also Master of the Great Wardrobe from 1543 to 1553 , Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery from 1535 until his death in 1587 , and notary in Chancery from 1534 . |
| 30 | Chief mason at Westminster Abbey from 1516 , he was also master mason of the chancel of St Margaret 's church , built for Abbot John Islip [ q.v. ] |