Example sentences of "or was it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 2 | Did you have er relatives that worked here or was it the pay or ? |
| 3 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 4 | Or was it the presence of Vic that he felt , his uneasy aura trapped in the shed like these once-breathing specimens ? |
| 5 | The Inspector clearly knew his church year , Theodora reflected , or was it the law sittings ? |
| 6 | Did Lower Axe dream in the soft evening sunshine of nineteen ninety two , or was it the wartime village that was out there now , canopied by the dangerous skies of nineteen forty ? |
| 7 | I , there was a question on the paragraph four in the amongst inflation or was it the appendix . |
| 8 | Last night — or was it the night before ? — I was in the House of Commons Library when a number of hon. Members commented when the Ceefax screen put up the headline ’ Soviet Union to end on 31st December . ’ |
| 9 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 10 | Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force ? |
| 11 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 12 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 13 | The question is — did he murder her or was it the husband ? ’ |
| 14 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 15 | Or was it the earth 's enlightenment — |
| 16 | Was it because you knew somebody in the factory or was it the wages that attracted you ? |
| 17 | Or was it the heat of Julius 's body that was having such an odd effect on her ? |
| 18 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 19 | Or was it the pleasure of having men 's eyes on you that you could not do without ? ’ |