Example sentences of "[was/were] it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got , what , were it five , five life sentences ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Was it thirteen ? |
| 4 | What , and was it seventy two ? |
| 5 | Or was it seventy five ball ? |
| 6 | But anyway , our , our prisoner , we , we , we are fairly sure he 's been released , he 's a , we had him for about two was it one or two years ? |
| 7 | Was it one of the reasons Sylvie had hated her ? |
| 8 | Was it one of my servants ? |
| 9 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 10 | There was er a man here his his name was James and I I do n't know was it one of his relatives that was buried , but he dreamt that they came to snatch the bodies |
| 11 | Was it one of the group ? |
| 12 | What was it one , how much was it a week ? |
| 13 | And was it one of his own ? |
| 14 | was it one of those badges he 's got on the back on the front |
| 15 | At last Hazel heard what he was listening for ; a rabbit — or was it two ? — approaching from the wood . |
| 16 | At the back of the room , solitary now , and perfectly prepared to be wholly bored for the next hour ( or was it two ? ) sat Mr Aldrich . |
| 17 | And was it two teachers in the school . |
| 18 | Was it two ounces a week we got ? |
| 19 | But mind you he 's a bit he 's a bit silly , looking back at myself er er three year , or was it two year back , or one ? |
| 20 | Was it two pounds summat three pounds summat ? |
| 21 | The wedding we went to , was it two years ago now ? |
| 22 | Was it two one five volts then cos I 'm tuning , comes on okay but by the time you 've tape wrecker that was ! |
| 23 | Was it two times that 's what I do and then and then let it harden off and then |
| 24 | And erm in when was it eighteen twenty seven at the Battle of Navareno the British navy sunk the Turkish fleet . |
| 25 | In fact , fifteen horses , was it fifteen horses |
| 26 | Well that one was the most restrictive because that you had to go , you could go any time between was it eight and eleven in the morning , but you could only come back either something like quarter to five , quarter to , no quarter to six was it ? |
| 27 | Well it was just that erm erm erm was it eight weeks your hospital appointment ? |
| 28 | Fifty was it fifty two ? |
| 29 | about at their height about the hurricane time and was it fifty one I think . |
| 30 | Was it fifty ? |