Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was he on trial ? |
| 2 | Or was he with his arms over his head on the floor ? |
| 3 | Or was he at road , by then ? |
| 4 | Was the ruler 's freedom of action significantly limited by independent institutions and social pressure or was he in a position to subject every social stratum to his own will ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did Lancaster seem calm or was he in a bit of a state ? ’ enquired Blanche , brushing her front teeth with the tip of her thumb . |
| 6 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 7 | Sterling strengthened , and the Chancellor did not cut rates ; but nor was he under pressure to raise them . |
| 8 | Nor was he under a duty to appoint a sufficient number of adjudication officers to handle applications within a statutory period . |
| 9 | Nor was he at all happy with the idea of me swanning off to France with the Parsons . |
| 10 | He was not , she noticed , a good driver , nor was he at all car-proud . |
| 11 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 12 | Nor was he at all anxious that ‘ corrupting ’ programmes be beamed at the impressionable population of Danu . |
| 13 | Nor was he like Asquith , whose urbane liberal gravitas he greatly admired , and who , of all the leading politicians he knew , was probably the one he would have most wished to emulate . |
| 14 | Nor was he in the least tired until well after midnight . |
| 15 | Nor was he in sympathy with some trends in Liberal affairs . |
| 16 | And was he to be as abjectly grateful for proffers even from young Eric in the north lands ? |
| 17 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 18 | Word of his prowess with the chanthu had spread , Alexei knew , and quarrels were seldom more than exchanges of acid words as a result , because were he to be challenged the choice of weapons would be his . |