Example sentences of "[was/were] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What was it last year was on Thursday ? |
| 32 | Everybody comes from miles around , all the kids come and the parents last year , was it last year ? |
| 33 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 34 | when was it last year or the year before ? |
| 35 | ‘ What was it last night , a stag party ? ’ |
| 36 | Was it last night ? |
| 37 | Oh God did you talk to him about la was it last night that he got shagged off ? |
| 38 | I mentioned to Mrs Bobby , was it last week when we went to Glasgow ? |
| 39 | I of er , was it last week erm , yeah it must have been where the the coloured lad |
| 40 | Well she was only early was it last week or the week before ? |
| 41 | We saw , was it last week , at our harvest festivals , we looked at the harvest time there , how God had led Ruth into contact , and into the field of Boaz , a man of great wealth ! |
| 42 | What was it last time then ? |
| 43 | Was it another story entirely ? |
| 44 | Was he being charitable for once , or was it another attempt to get her out of Peter 's life ? |
| 45 | was it funny mum ? |
| 46 | If the crank shaft goes on a car after twenty thousand miles , is it a defect — mechanical defect — covered by the guarantee , or was it faulty workmanship by the person who put it into the car ? |
| 47 | Was it some demon raised by a witch or warlock ? |
| 48 | Was it some trick of the light ? |
| 49 | Was it some kind of ‘ leak ’ ? |
| 50 | Was it some sulphur thing or something ? |
| 51 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 52 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 53 | Was it some sort of ruse or what ? |
| 54 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 55 | Was it any part of your job to give such contraceptive advice as you could to , |
| 56 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
| 57 | Was it any good ? |
| 58 | Was it any good ? |
| 59 | Was it any good ? |
| 60 | Was it any fault of his if the Welsh rebels had made prisoner a Mortimer , at this moment the most formidable of the Mortimers ? |