Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I say that 'cause he were n't a ‘ appy man . |
| 2 | He were yourn , you kept saying , though he were n't no more yourn than mine . ’ |
| 3 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 4 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 5 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 6 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 7 | He were always a bit of a tyrant . |
| 8 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 9 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 10 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 11 | He were only a young boy , seventeen year old . |
| 12 | ‘ Hullo , ’ said Lili as though he were only an acquaintance . |
| 13 | She asked him if he were still a virgin . |
| 14 | Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child . |
| 15 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 16 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 17 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 18 | The secular cleric had the further advantage from the king 's standpoint that he was strictly a life-tenant , unable to transmit his abbacy to a legitimate heir . |
| 19 | He was both a stand-in skipper and an emergency defender during Liverpool 's successful European trip to Cyprus this week . |
| 20 | Like his predecessors , he was both a barbarian warlord and ( as Eddius admitted ) ‘ a most Christian king ’ . |
| 21 | Sheepshanks , a leading figure in the Royal Astronomical Society , himself fitted into all three of his categories : he was both a lawyer and a clergyman , and did not practise either profession because he had inherited wealth from his cloth-manufacturing father . |
| 22 | He was both a symptom of , and a resource for , the revival of Classical Art in the 18th century . |
| 23 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |
| 24 | Indeed , he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends . |
| 25 | He was both the child of the National Education system and its architect . |
| 26 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 27 | Mind , he was rather a wild card was Granda , rather too fond of strong drink . |
| 28 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 29 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 30 | By 1966 when Reagan ran for the governorship of California , he was not simply a novice with little to offer except an agreeable manner and celebrity status ; he was rather a widely experienced and articulate political animal with many of the attributes necessary for success in American politics in the late twentieth century . |