Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were alone he asked if the fair doctor in the short white coat was my boyfriend . |
| 2 | When he saw the room was empty he turned and walked through the open doorway of Johnny 's room , searching . |
| 3 | Corbett would have packed his saddle bags immediately and left but Maeve was insistent he wait until the rain storm abated . |
| 4 | Eb and Florrie Judge had one son , Thomas , and when Tom was sixteen he discovered that Saul had some hold over his father . |
| 5 | Her action always embarrassed him , but as it was unobtrusive he doubted if anyone else noticed it . |
| 6 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |