Example sentences of "he [was/were] a stranger " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little tubby man with him was a stranger . |
| 2 | She scrutinised his face , as though he were a stranger . |
| 3 | It is made to seem that he was a stranger , a gentleman , a ‘ watcher from the sidelines ’ . |
| 4 | He did n't really like the way she called him Nigel — it was as if he was a stranger . |
| 5 | It had suddenly struck her that he was a stranger in the town , and might have nowhere to go . |
| 6 | He was a stranger . |
| 7 | Despite the letters , he was a stranger . |
| 8 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 9 | He neither confirmed nor denied that he was a stranger . |
| 10 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 11 | Still , he was a stranger after all . |
| 12 | It was an instinctive reaching out to him even when he was a stranger . |
| 13 | But I think my sister was a bit scared of him , she felt he was a stranger being in u in er soldier 's uniform you know . |
| 14 | For the first time she felt as though he was a stranger . |
| 15 | He could have bailed out , he was a stranger in a strange land , he owed us nothing |