Example sentences of "[was/were] he [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A single ma can not divine fully the eternal and universal ideal , were he Shakespeare himself , ad therefore he can not prescribe either the ways or the aims for art . |
2 | Was he cowboy then , or priest ? |
3 | No sooner was he back amongst his own patients than he set about exchanging the dressings applied by Dr McNab , even though they were in most cases identical to his own . |
4 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
5 | Was he Gordon ? |
6 | Was he medium built or , what was you gon na say ? |
7 | Was he editor of the local paper ? |
8 | Did you like working for my husband ; was he kind ? ’ |
9 | Paddy ( or was he Mick ? |
10 | Was he Jehovah , the son of Jehovah or a complicated combination of the two ? |
11 | I would also have to say that it was he behaviour of the galleries which stands out . |
12 | yeah , well the thing was he Peter gave him a key |
13 | Only in the last eight or nine years before his death ( 754 ) was he archbishop of Mainz . |
14 | And she said to him , when I got out she said oh , was he knife happy ? |
15 | But was he man or was he beast ? |
16 | But was he man or was he beast ? |
17 | ‘ Or was he City Squad ? ’ |
18 | Was he Death astride his dark charger , was Death the moment of consummation , the moment of glory ? |
19 | ‘ Was he Penry , too ? ’ |
20 | Not only was he Bishop of Winchester but also Provost to Eton , Lord chancellor to Henry VI and tutor to Edward , Prince of Wales . |
21 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
22 | Not only was he heir to the Spencer estates , he also served with distinction as a captain in the Royal Scots Greys during World War Two and , as Equerry to the Queen , he had accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on their historic tour of Australia shortly before his marriage . |
23 | And was he number one ? |