Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down river , or was it up the river ? |
| 2 | As Layton asked in his poem ‘ To The Roaring Wind ’ ( or was it to the Spirit-behind-the wind ? ) : |
| 3 | Was it just free standing in the middle of the room or was it against the wall ? |
| 4 | Or was it after the diarrhoea but before the two lovely colds ? |
| 5 | Or was it from the father , do you think ? |
| 6 | Was on the heights or was it in the hollows ? |
| 7 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 8 | There was nothing equivocal about that ; nor was there about the oath of allegiance the emirs were required to take , which recognized the undisputed sovereignty in all matters , saving that of religion , of the British government . |
| 9 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 10 | Leading by example is not enough — nor was it at the time of Risinghill . |
| 11 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |
| 12 | Nor was he in the least tired until well after midnight . |
| 13 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 14 | Cara had seen neither member of Frizingley 's force herself ; nor was she in the least surprised that two men armed only with truncheons should shirk from attempting to enforce their will upon St Jude 's . |
| 15 | Nor was she in the least bit jealous about whoever his engagement was with — but she 'd lay odds it was n't with his Prague-residing brother ! |
| 16 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 17 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 18 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 19 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
| 20 | After graduating he travelled to Paris , and was there during the 1848 rising . |
| 21 | Born in 1870 , he had served during 1897 as honorary Vice-Consul at Van in Asia Minor , and was there during the Armenian massacres . |
| 22 | But was it worth the risk of sharing work with the rival practice ? |