Example sentences of "[conj] was he [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Now a couple of weeks ago a man called Mr Lamont actually resigned I understand or was he sacked I 'm not quite sure , but when he disappeared off the scene , Mr Major said I am still keeping forward with my policies . |
2 | Or was he frightened of pigeons then ? |
3 | Did he fall or was he pushed ? ’ |
4 | So ‘ March Or Die ’ saw the departure of Phil Taylor and the arrival of Mikkey Dee , but did Philthy jump or was he pushed ? |
5 | But it 's the old question of did he fall or was he pushed ? |
6 | Or was he pushed ? ’ |
7 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
8 | Or was he entitled to act solely on his own expert opinion ? |
9 | Edward the Confessor , for example , came to the throne sometime in June 1042 , and was crowned on 3 April 1043 , but did he become king as soon as Harthacnut died on 8 June 1042 , or was he adjudged king only after his anointing ? |
10 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
11 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
12 | Nor was he given an opportunity to present his own view of feeling in Washington when he returned to London . |
13 | Dustin was neither a boy nor a beatnik , nor was he mobbed . |
14 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
15 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
16 | The party would also invest in education ; that was he said , the most fundamental requirement of Britain 's future success . |
17 | And was he given the choice before the order went out , or simply informed that it had been given ? ’ |
18 | From , from Yugoslavia , and we , we heard provisionally he was released about August did n't we , and then eventually a couple of months ago that he had definitely released , erm , and , were , were very pleased about that cos was he released before the end of his term , he must have been ? |
19 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |