Example sentences of "[was/were] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ ‘ Oh dear-was it somebody I gave permission to ? ’ asked Ianthe . |
| 2 | Her mother , she thought with a most annoying pride , who was one of the few genuinely creative women scientists around and in whose success , were it anyone except her mother 's , she would be rejoicing . |
| 3 | But I know when we went in Co-op the other day , last week were it there was a load |
| 4 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 5 | It strikes me the symbolism of this whole venture would be better were it he and Andy balancing together on the seat , but I get the impression Andy 's partner is n't fully into such flamboyance . |
| 6 | Were it his daughter ? |
| 7 | Was it her that baked for us as well ? |
| 8 | Was it her on the phone ? |
| 9 | They were Asian ones — I could tell that from the label , but he said that Asians had one more ( or was it one less ? ) toe than the Indian ones and different ears . |
| 10 | Was it one here ? |
| 11 | Was it its ear ? |
| 12 | What was it we said ? |
| 13 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 14 | What was it we wanted to know ? |
| 15 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
| 16 | So so what So if that one 's done how much was it we said a week ? |
| 17 | Was it we went to ? |
| 18 | Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't |
| 19 | What was it we were gon na call my dog ? |
| 20 | The thin girl , and was it her brother ? |
| 21 | .. or was it her sister ? |
| 22 | ‘ Was it her son … ? ’ |
| 23 | Was it her imagination or was George laughing at them all ? |
| 24 | Was it her fault ? |
| 25 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 26 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 27 | There seemed to be a sudden restraint between them , or was it her imagination ? |
| 28 | Was it her new haircut , and Faye 's dress ? |
| 29 | Was it her heart ? |
| 30 | Was it her fault if a good percentage of the Danish nation was called Svend ? |