Example sentences of "or [was/were] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or were they a security squad determined to drive some supposed gawping cluster of citizenry below , unsure as yet in the darkness of their rank or affiliation ? |
| 2 | Did you all go swimming or were there a lot of you not going today ? |
| 3 | Are you or were you a smoker ? |
| 4 | Were you responsible for the horse or were you a cattle man ? |
| 5 | Or was there a deficiency in his make-up in the maleness of him ? |
| 6 | Or was there a previous contracting phase , in which the galaxies managed to avoid hitting each other ? |
| 7 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |
| 8 | Was she at peace , or was there a part of her that was even now wandering Minginish ? |
| 9 | Had the sentry panicked at the sound of a galloping horse and fired off a lucky shot , or was there a more sinister design ? |
| 10 | Or was there a balance ? |
| 11 | Was it her imagination , or was there a faint hardening to his voice ? |
| 12 | ‘ Was I imagining things , or was there a definite hint of electricity in the air between you and the dashing doctor ? ’ |
| 13 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 14 | or was there a sort of spell afterwards too . |
| 15 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 16 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 17 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 18 | Or was it a plot ? |
| 19 | Or was it a request made in a moment of desperation and to be ignored ? |
| 20 | Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ? |
| 21 | Or was it a groan ? |
| 22 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 23 | The question — or was it a demand — shocked him out of his fantasy as crudely as if , unprovoked , she had suddenly slapped his face . |
| 24 | Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ? |
| 25 | Nice work if you can get it , I thought as the tail lights of her Daimler ( or was it a Rolls ? ) disappeared into the night . |
| 26 | Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax ? |
| 27 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 28 | Or was it a form of Luddism for fear the machines would displace men ? |
| 29 | He was in a Sopwith Pup , or was it a Camel ? |
| 30 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |