Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] it [adj] " 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 | Did she detect compassion or was it slight wistfulness in those incredibly direct blue eyes ? |
| 3 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 4 | my husband and yes , just a minute , my husband arrived home from the war in nineteen forty eight I think it was or was it nineteen forty seven ? |
| 5 | At last Hazel heard what he was listening for ; a rabbit — or was it two ? — approaching from the wood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Did they really cope so well in a man 's world , or was it all just an act ? |
| 10 | Or was it all a pack of lies to make me give in ? |
| 11 | Was I really going to marry him , or was it all a dream ? |
| 12 | Which was it , or was it all of them combined ? |
| 13 | Were women expected to do things still , or was it all earth-motherhood and fulfilment-through-family these days ? |
| 14 | Did you actually see either er car or card ? or was it all done over the telephone with somebody else looking at the card ? |
| 15 | Saskia — or was it Mogul ? — tucked them into the breast pocket of her overalls for her . |
| 16 | Or was it coy ? |
| 17 | Oh yeah I bet that was exciting or was it sad ? |
| 18 | There was one , Robert Hardy , for instance , rumoured to be twelfth or was it twentieth in line to the throne ? |
| 19 | Or was it scrambled egg ? |
| 20 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 21 | Or was it possible , as he claimed , that Lotta had misrepresented the situation with calculated spite ? |
| 22 | Or was it atomic law — |
| 23 | Or was it such a mystery ? |
| 24 | Florence Ames had written after all this time , four or was it six months ? |
| 25 | And we , we normally have members go , we 've had as many as five one year , or was it six , erm , not always that many I think , was it three of you went last year , I think it was three was n't it ? |
| 26 | The crusade against the cinema had never caught the imagination of the parish since he had launched it with such lofty aspirations five — or was it six ? — months ago . |
| 27 | ‘ Or was it that ? ’ he continued as if speaking to himself . |
| 28 | Or was it seventy five ball ? |
| 29 | I mean that was bloody thirty nine thousand , or was it forty one when she had it . |
| 30 | Earlier this year , or was it last year , I received this marvellous booklet . |