Example sentences of "[was/were] he an [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 | The cripple , for example , who had flung Allen into the stream , was he an honest man or a rascal ? |
| 3 | Was he an uninitiated infant |
| 4 | With a slow , teasing smile , he asked outrageously , ‘ So was he an eager lover , my little friend ? |
| 5 | Not only was he an important member of the ministry ( though without a cabinet place ) , he was also , from his father 's death in 1706 , the head of his family and the leader of the Tory interest throughout south Wales . |
| 6 | ‘ Was he an identical twin ? ’ |