Sentence examples for were a detective from inspiring English sources
Green, for his part, clearly approached his biography of Conan Doyle as if he were a detective.
If he were a detective he would surely reduce this fascinating but unorganised business to something nearer to an exact science".
Collins had a talent for invidious distinction and a pained intolerance of the graceful sham; he sifted the evidence of literature as if he were a detective.
Her color prints are formally persuasive, but there is also a curious, searching quality to Ms. Deroo's project, as though she were a detective.
Her color prints are formally persuasive, but there is also a curious, searching quality to Ms. Deroo's project, as if she were a detective.
It does, owing in part to the topnotch performance of Lancashire, who, with her soup-bowl eyes and blond bangs, resembles the pop star Adele — if Adele were a detective, a grandmother, and a dedicated agent of vengeance.
Rembrandt is a detective.
Chinatown is a detective story.
It is like being a detective".
