Example sentences of "[conj] was it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Did she detect compassion or was it slight wistfulness in those incredibly direct blue eyes ?
2 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 ?
3 Or was it scrambled egg ?
4 Or was it atomic law
5 Florence Ames had written after all this time , four or was it six months ?
6 Earlier this year , or was it last year , I received this marvellous booklet .
7 Together they had painted the town a decorous shade of palest pink , dancing at Le Bal Anglais , or was it Mimi Pinson , necking in other people 's rooms , walking the streets of Paris , hand in hand during one timeless and unforgettable spring .
8 Was he being charitable for once , or was it another attempt to get her out of Peter 's life ?
9 For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ .
10 Or was it seven foot ?
11 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 ?
12 Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September .
13 Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed .
14 Oh so and was it all sort of erm erm society do 's that you went to and cocktails and things like
15 And was it two teachers in the school .
16 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 ?
17 But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident .
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