Example sentences of "[conj] was [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it the presence of Vic that he felt , his uneasy aura trapped in the shed like these once-breathing specimens ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 4 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 5 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 6 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 7 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 8 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 9 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 10 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 11 | Did Lower Axe dream in the soft evening sunshine of nineteen ninety two , or was it the wartime village that was out there now , canopied by the dangerous skies of nineteen forty ? |
| 12 | The question is — did he murder her or was it the husband ? ’ |
| 13 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 14 | And he recalls or was it the s same bus conductor , the same bus driver I mean . |
| 15 | Was it because you knew somebody in the factory or was it the wages that attracted you ? |
| 16 | Did you have er relatives that worked here or was it the pay or ? |
| 17 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 18 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 19 | Or was it the heat of Julius 's body that was having such an odd effect on her ? |
| 20 | Or was it the earth 's enlightenment — |
| 21 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 22 | The Inspector clearly knew his church year , Theodora reflected , or was it the law sittings ? |
| 23 | Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ? |
| 24 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 25 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 26 | Last night — or was it the night before ? — I was in the House of Commons Library when a number of hon. Members commented when the Ceefax screen put up the headline ’ Soviet Union to end on 31st December . ’ |
| 27 | Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ? |
| 28 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 29 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 30 | Now we 've got another opportunity system , erm but it 's too early they think that the the water is coming up in I think February is n't it another or was it the coastal but it 's with |