Example sentences of "he were [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 2 | He were under these covers and erm |
| 3 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 4 | Er , he were in all day yesterday and , then he disappeared this morning . |
| 5 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 6 | A real friendly fellow he were by all accounts , bought 'em all drinks . ’ |
| 7 | Well what , I 'll never forget this chap do up on Avenue Road he were like that ! |
| 8 | Tried him with anything the other day when he were like this . |
| 9 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |