Example sentences of "was [adv] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all he most hated . |
| 2 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | He was seldom in the house except to eat or sleep and when he was all he ever did was yell , ‘ Get the tea . |
| 4 | It was all he really ever wanted . |
| 5 | It 's just that — at first he seemed to be so nice , he was so charming , he was a lot of fun — most of the time — and I did n't realise that was all he really wanted from me . |
| 6 | He appeared to have learned his lesson last season , but the fact that he needs Robson 's ‘ Englishness ’ for Europe means he will pick him for some league games such as Chelsea last week , and was n't he crap ; > } |
| 7 | Was n't he up for , mm , mm , you know , for competition ? |
| 8 | He 'd soon find out that selling Rocky ( especially in a deal with Stewart ) is not a popular move … and why was n't he even on the bench ? |
| 9 | ’ Was n't he just ? ’ |
| 10 | Yes Chair , I think Mr was quoting Michael Portillo was n't he in about the er , when you sell a house you do n't not pay off the mortgage , and of course what most people do is buy another house , sorry who was it ? |
| 11 | Was n't he really ? |
| 12 | Was n't he always at the helm ? |
| 13 | Why was n't he more upset ? |
| 14 | Secondly , when readers complain about the lives of writers — why did n't he do this ; why did n't he protest to the newspapers about that ; why was n't he more involved in life ? — are n't they really asking a simpler , and vainer , question : why is n't he more like us ? |
| 15 | Was n't he much younger than Bridget ? |
| 16 | Was n't he totally different from the boys who had fumblingly and rather horridly and wetly , she thought , kissed her and said they quite fancied her ? |
| 17 | ‘ Was n't he there ? ’ |
| 18 | Was n't he there ? |
| 19 | But was n't he still taking rather a chance , if it was all that important to him that I should n't survive ? |
| 20 | This was how he usually spent his winters . |
| 21 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 22 | De Gaulle showed , in a press conference on 9 September , that his most serious concern was the introduction of more majority voting in the Community in future and that this was where he most wanted changes . |
| 23 | And that was where he devoutly wished them . |
| 24 | Her father was where he always was in the afternoons of mid-winter . |
| 25 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 26 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 27 | And that was when he almost caused her to drop with astonishment off the promontory . |
| 28 | This was a silly notion , but nevertheless , that was why he genuinely believed himself to be a failure . |
| 29 | That was why he always had to be in the saddle , controlling everything within his reach with great brilliance and clarity of mind . |