Example sentences of "[coord] [be] he [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Or is he fed up of it ?
2 ‘ I am therefore issuing my second challenge to Michael Fallon : will he now withdraw his remarks and accept that real cuts are taking place in Darlington 's training provision or is he scared of the truth about training ? ’
3 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 .
4 Or was he frightened of pigeons then ?
5 Did he fall or was he pushed ? ’
6 So ‘ March Or Die ’ saw the departure of Phil Taylor and the arrival of Mikkey Dee , but did Philthy jump or was he pushed ?
7 But it 's the old question of did he fall or was he pushed ?
8 Or was he pushed ? ’
9 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 ? ’
10 Or was he entitled to act solely on his own expert opinion ?
11 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 ?
12 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 ) .
13 When speaker A in extract ( 1 ) says ‘ Yes , it 's an enormous problem ’ , speaker B does not have trouble understanding the reference of it even though this is not spelt out ; nor is he perplexed by the use of yes followed by a totally different point .
14 Nor is he bound to gamble on the market changing in his favour .
15 Nor is he entitled to examine proceedings in Parliament in order to show that the appellants by fraudulently misleading Parliament caused him loss .
16 Mr X will argue that he has not received and nor is he entitled to receive any capital sum , namely a loan or a repayment of a loan .
17 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 .
18 Nor was he given an opportunity to present his own view of feeling in Washington when he returned to London .
19 Dustin was neither a boy nor a beatnik , nor was he mobbed .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 And was he given the choice before the order went out , or simply informed that it had been given ? ’
23 But is he prepared to trust you now ? ’
24 But is he returned to his senses ?
25 But is he entitled on the basis of his own principle to continue to say : ‘ Theological statements are meaningless ’ ?
26 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
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