Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said I 'm , I 'm , I got them out at I think it were twenty one ninety nine or were it twenty five ninety nine ? they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now , I ca n't remember off the cuff . |
| 2 | my stuff from last week , where did where was it ? |
| 3 | As Layton asked in his poem ‘ To The Roaring Wind ’ ( or was it to the Spirit-behind-the wind ? ) : |
| 4 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 5 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 6 | Ramsey was asked later , were you getting unintelligible , or was it only that the bishop was a bad listener to Holy Week addresses ? |
| 7 | Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ? |
| 8 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 9 | Or was it part of the film ? |
| 10 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 11 | Would she wear it off stage or was it strictly for Betty Boo only ? |
| 12 | Was it Tony DeFries or was it David Bowie ? |
| 13 | Or was it only with a view to inspiring a love of virtue that he read ‘ Abou Ben Adhem ’ and how he ‘ loved his fellow men . ’ |
| 14 | Or was it Caspar ? |
| 15 | The last meal they 'd had together was perhaps on holiday , or was it Eleanor 's cake ? |
| 16 | Or was it in her ear ? |
| 17 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 18 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 19 | As a result they were often not employed and , even if they were , there was a widespread superstition that the Catholic church made sure that one in twenty ( or was it ten ? ) was faulty , as a sort of divine vengeance . |
| 20 | Or was it the presence of Vic that he felt , his uneasy aura trapped in the shed like these once-breathing specimens ? |
| 21 | Florence Ames had written after all this time , four or was it six months ? |
| 22 | The tell-tale noises were close , but so was the winning post — or was it ? |
| 23 | Then one day , out of the blue there was a miracle — or was it perhaps a fairy tale ? |
| 24 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 25 | Or was it Hamwell ? |
| 26 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 27 | He managed to hold the ball on the putting surface and , two putts later , the last one from six feet , he was on his knees in triumph , or was it supplication ? |
| 28 | Or was it as devious as that ? |
| 29 | A hundred years ago — or was it yesterday ? — the promenade in the Bois was a fairy tale . |
| 30 | Or was it a plot ? |