Example sentences of "[was/were] he the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Was he the assassin ?
2 Was he the drinking kind ?
3 Was he the man from the PR agency ?
4 Was he the man who had held her ?
5 Who was that other fella , was he the deputy someone or something ?
6 Was he the type of the world into which they had so unthinkingly plunged ?
7 was he the policeman ?
8 Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ?
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 Was he the baby 's father ? ’
11 Was he the murderer ? the coroner wondered .
12 Was he the cause of Emily 's distress ?
13 Was he the cause of all that fuss on the phone ?
14 Subject : Was he the lad who …
15 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 .
16 Was he the reason Cornelius had lured them to Burford that day ?
17 Was he the author of the letter ?
18 So was he the guy that did everything himself then ?
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