Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was he a world champion sprinter , as well as a pocket Hercules ? |
| 2 | Or was he a bit of both ? |
| 3 | Or was he a friend who was watching us to make sure we were safe ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did he even exist or was he an invention to put me off ? |
| 5 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 6 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 7 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 8 | Nor was he the only one to see hope amid chaos . |
| 9 | The Holy Spirit was not to be confined to the narrow straits of Jewish respectability , nor was he the perquisite of the Church leadership . |
| 10 | Nor was he the only one to do so . |
| 11 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 12 | I remember him scoring a few stunning goals ( eg the one that evetually put Wimbledon out of the FA cup when they were still a non league team — that was a volley was n't it ? ) but was he a particuarly good volleyer ? |
| 13 | But was he a real smooth talker ? |
| 14 | But was he a fellow choir man as well ? |