Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] he [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 2 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 3 | Or was he simply placing a cloak of scientific respectability over the peculiarly oppressive relationships of turn-of-the-century Vienna ? |
| 4 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 5 | And was he really trying to tell her that he really did n't indulge in casual affairs ? |