Example sentences of "was he [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seldom , until the last decades of the nineteenth century was he regarded as a likely subject for trade unionism . |
| 2 | Dustin was neither a boy nor a beatnik , nor was he mobbed . |
| 3 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 4 | Well he was he heard Audrey 's voice in the waiting room |
| 5 | And what he did was he wrote down quite a number of things . |
| 6 | Was he cast in the same mould ? |
| 7 | Winters in California perhaps thought himself securely distant from the seat of the infection ; he never visited Europe , still less was he tempted to expatriate himself . |
| 8 | Was he tempted ? |
| 9 | Not only was he shaken and upset by the accident , but , worse for him , his favourite race car suffered severe damage on a day when the Marlboro McLaren Honda team endured a series of setbacks to their own hopes . |
| 10 | Who was he employed with then ? |
| 11 | When he saw how upset she was he gripped her by both shoulders . |
| 12 | Was he killed in action ? ’ |
| 13 | Was he killed ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And why was he killed ? ’ the Mountie asked . |
| 15 | ‘ If his neck was broken before being put into the pit , was he killed elsewhere or in the church ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No , I mean , why was he killed ? |
| 17 | Why was he killed ? |
| 18 | Who killed Francis and why was he killed ? |
| 19 | Time was he called it his cock , aggressively , invitingly . |
| 20 | She tries to cover over her acknowledgement by saying , ‘ — as I think so was he called ’ . |
| 21 | well what was he called ? |
| 22 | He was called , what was he called ? |
| 23 | What was he called ? |
| 24 | friend , what was he called ? |
| 25 | What was , what was he called ? |
| 26 | Only on the second occasion was he searched and found with a gun . |
| 27 | When it finally was he recognised the voice immediately . |
| 28 | ‘ And how was he dressed ? ’ |
| 29 | Not only was he engaged in a war , but , as soon became clear , it was a war which was going badly and which threatened to become unpopular in both France and Britain . |
| 30 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |