Example sentences of "was [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 2 | Bits that did n't depend on who he was or what family he belonged to . |
| 3 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Better than nothing , ’ said Harvey , who never seemed to care where he was or what he was doing . |
| 5 | No , nothing ; or else the memory of a meeting , ‘ but I ca n't recall what the outcome was or what we were discussing . ’ |
| 6 | Tock was still a little stunned from the accident and would become confused as to where he was or what he was doing . |
| 7 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 8 | A ‘ Life Line ’ feature , grandfather of our ‘ Material World ’ section , was introduced in which , should the fancy take you , you could find out what Freddie Garrity 's favourite food was or what Gerry Marsden wanted for Christmas . |
| 9 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 10 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 11 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 12 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 13 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 14 | Who he was or what he did , she did n't know , and did n't care . |
| 15 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 16 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 17 | She did not know where she was or what had happened . |
| 18 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 19 | He looked at her vaguely as if he was n't sure who she was or what she was doing there . |
| 20 | They did n't know who I was or what the Third World was . |
| 21 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
| 22 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 23 | for granddad or whatever it was or something were n't it ? |
| 24 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 25 | Either it was or it was n't . |
| 26 | I could tell you offhand , if I 'd known how , where the race was or there 's not many places . |
| 27 | I had no idea who she was or who I was or where we were . |
| 28 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 29 | As he had once said to John , you took Comfort as she was or you ignored her , and he enjoyed her enough to put up with her . |
| 30 | Aaron Wildavsky argued that while PPBS had many shortcomings , the fundamental reason for its demise was that no-one knew how to do programme budgeting . |