Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 2 | That is what the right hon. Gentleman has said that he would do if he were Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Yeah whether he were dark hair or light hair or tall or short . |
| 4 | It seems to me that the judgment must be read as a whole , and that paragraphs 19 to 20 , dealing with question 2(b) are completely inconsistent with Mr. Beazley 's construction , seeing that if he were right article 5(3) would become a ‘ catch-all ’ provision , and liability not based on tort , delict or quasi-delict would fall within it , notwithstanding the explicit statement to the contrary in the last two lines of paragraph 19 . |
| 5 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 6 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |
| 7 | It was the odd way he was looking at her , almost as if he were some kind of predatory animal waiting to pounce . |
| 8 | Behind her Rune remained silent , his presence oppressive as if he were some Superman radiating a special kind of beam which could put the world to rights if only one believed in it . |
| 9 | How dare this man demand his credentials as if he were some arriviste from the Colonies whose background had to be sniffed out and tracked down because his foreground was presumed to be so suspect ! |
| 10 | He treated her to a brief flash of his identity card before tucking it away out of sight ; people were still gaping at him as if he were some alien from outer space . |
| 11 | ‘ There 'll be an outcry , bring up a human baby as though he were some sort of experimental animal ! |
| 12 | It is important not to interpret the phrase that Jesus had felt some power go out of him as though he were some sort of ‘ divine energy source ’ of healing . |
| 13 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 14 | Cullam and he were both lorry drivers , both lived in council accommodation , but that was all they had in common . |
| 15 | His view is that he was unacceptable because he was working class , lived in a council flat , and was in debt to the Housing Executive . |
| 16 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 17 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 18 | He was fourteen years older than Jeanne , barely able to support himself , let alone a wife , a weakling unfit for army service , a bohemian , a drunk and , worst of all , a Jew . |
| 19 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 21 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 22 | It all started when he was eleven months old . |
| 23 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 24 | Born in 1906 , he was eleven years younger than Leavis but far more precocious , and spent his early teaching life , as a pupil and disciple of his Cambridge mentor I. A. Richards , in the Far East . |
| 25 | He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team . |
| 26 | ‘ He was Rosalli Gabrielli 's manager . |
| 27 | He was total anti-establishment were n't he ? |
| 28 | He was 68 years old . |
| 29 | He was 68 years old . |
| 30 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |