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 |