Example sentences of "was he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was he able to believe in the religion of his community . |
| 2 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And what was he doing ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 5 | And for a while , so was he . |
| 6 | She was a scold — whenever she was near him he felt in the wrong and wondered anxiously what it was he ought to have done . |
| 7 | Why was he saying nothing ? asking no questions ? |
| 8 | Was he himself as calculating and vain as that ? |
| 9 | And why was he there at all ? |
| 10 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 11 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 12 | But so seized was he by the divine knowledge , so ‘ evangelistically ’ fixed with its potency , that his exploits on its behalf quickly created his legend . |
| 13 | Or was he ? |
| 14 | Nor was he in the least tired until well after midnight . |
| 15 | She did n't , but in the morning as she snapped off the alarm , anxious not to wake Rodney , she saw that the man in the next bed was not Rodney , nor was he asleep . |
| 16 | Was he following her ? |
| 17 | Was he incredibly handsome ? ’ |
| 18 | Kenneth MacMillan is a master of many styles and views but it was he who first revealed Lynn Seymour 's dramatic gifts in Romeo and Juliet and has more recently been doing the same for Darcey Bussell . |
| 19 | Of what was he guilty ? |
| 20 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 23 | Was he over his illness and restored to peak efficiency ? |
| 24 | Sterling strengthened , and the Chancellor did not cut rates ; but nor was he under pressure to raise them . |
| 25 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 26 | Nor was he alone . |
| 27 | Was he unhappy about Liverpool 's decision ? |
| 28 | He 's devoted his life to the cause and if Patrick came back there 's no question as to who he 'd want to control the show , because it was he that called Peter ‘ The Sacred Keeper of My Sacred Conscience ’ . |
| 29 | No , of course not , I replied , wondering why he had brought the subject up : why , too , was he so anxious to avoid it ? |
| 30 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |