Example sentences of "[was/were] he [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Was he a red-blooded Englishman or a cold-blooded psychopath ? |
| 3 | Was he a regular visitor ? ’ |
| 4 | Not only was he a good judge of horseflesh , but he was capable of treating most ailments which occurred both in the hunters and the heavy farm animals . |
| 5 | Your father — was he a good husband to her ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Was he a good lover ? |
| 7 | ‘ Was he a good doctor ? |
| 8 | The boys liked Basil for they felt that not only was he a good teacher , he was also a man . |
| 9 | No longer was he a diffident youth . |
| 10 | But was he a fellow choir man as well ? |
| 11 | Was he a real charmer ? |
| 12 | I mean was he a rich peasant , was he a poor peasant or |
| 13 | Not only was he a first-class commentator , he was also a true gentleman of the old school who was not afraid to criticise the sport 's overpaid prima donnas when they started throwing tantrums and acting up on court . |
| 14 | Was he a great man robbed of political success by his own misjudgement , or a pedant who should have stuck to his texts ? |
| 15 | Was he a young American with middle-aged English characteristics ? |
| 16 | Was he a savage creature with evil designs on me or was it his idea of a joke ? |
| 17 | Was he a new appointment ? |
| 18 | Was he a liberal MP in then ? |
| 19 | Sometimes that learning method is called the Hebean learning rule erm because it 's the sort of thing you find in animals erm Donald a famous what was he a famous neurophysiologist . |
| 20 | I mean was he a rich peasant , was he a poor peasant or |
| 21 | Was he a secret hero and was that why Gloria never talked about him ? |
| 22 | Ali 's cutting edge was his intellect : not only was he a renowned sportsman of brilliance , but he also commanded the world 's attentions through his insight , sarcasm and satire . |
| 23 | Albert was the epitome of the wing-half of the 1920s because , not only was he a ferocious tackler and a prolific feeder of his forwards , but he could come upfield himself to great effect and possessed a smashing shot of his own , so that the ‘ Feebury specials ’ of the period generated a great deal of enthusiasm among Palace fans — and no little anxiety to opposing goalkeepers . |
| 24 | Eventually Dot asked , ‘ Was he a brave man ? ’ |
| 25 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 26 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 27 | Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ? |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 30 | Was he the only son ? |