Example sentences of "[was/were] it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 2 | Were it his daughter ? |
| 3 | Was it its ear ? |
| 4 | I forget what it was , was it her present ? |
| 5 | .. or was it her sister ? |
| 6 | Was it her heart ? |
| 7 | Or was it her heart ? |
| 8 | Ho how do you well you really sees , seem to have been quite erm , well , was it her approach do you think ? |
| 9 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 10 | Was it her imagination or was George laughing at them all ? |
| 11 | There seemed to be a sudden restraint between them , or was it her imagination ? |
| 12 | Was it her imagination or had the crowd surrounding her gone unusually quiet as Rune lifted the instrument to his lips ? |
| 13 | Was it her imagination or was the man opposite her regarding her warily ? |
| 14 | Was it her imagination , or had he moved fractionally closer ? |
| 15 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 16 | Was it her imagination or had his grip on her shoulder grown less tight ? |
| 17 | Was it her imagination , or was there a faint hardening to his voice ? |
| 18 | Perhaps he had gone along with it , and if he had , for whatever reason , agreed to the fiction , was it her place to undo it ? |
| 19 | There 's the er it was n't er the Princess , er the Queen now , was it her father ? |
| 20 | ‘ Was it her son … ? ’ |
| 21 | How was it her point of view was never right ? |
| 22 | Was it her fault ? |
| 23 | Was it her fault if a good percentage of the Danish nation was called Svend ? |
| 24 | Was it her fault if her brain would n't function at a normal level ? |
| 25 | She never turned back from it after ; nor was it her habit , any more than his , to repent of what she did . |
| 26 | The thin girl , and was it her brother ? |
| 27 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 28 | Why was it their go ? |
| 29 | They went away on their silver wedding was it their silver ? |
| 30 | Was it our kid ? |