Example sentences of "was [coord] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Once it was or while you were building it and once it was up .
2 Irina worried about whether she was on the pill and all possible consequences of whether she was or whether she was n't .
3 I asked , wondering if it really was or if his memory had become glamorized .
4 I had no idea who she was or who I was or where we were .
5 I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down .
6 I must have fainted , and when I came to I did n't know who I was or where I 'd come from . "
7 He wondered what hIs condition was and whether he would survive .
8 his head was pounding and he vaguely wondered what time it was and as he began to unlock the door he wondered what had brought Patrick back .
9 When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement .
10 She wanted to know what cancer was and when they said it was terminal , she asked what that meant .
11 We were within 5,000 votes and I think when people see how nearly effective the amount of tactical voting was and when they see the Tory support slipping , they will come very strongly over to us .
12 He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps .
13 ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’
14 in here , you just tape them on , bang them down who it was and when it was and then on Friday he picks them up and you get twenty five quids worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers .
15 There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them .
16 Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from .
17 All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going .
18 Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from .
19 I went to a clairvoyant once , when I was young and needed to be told , by anybody , who I was and where I was heading .
20 I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident .
21 Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from .
22 Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life .
23 ‘ He told them who he was and where he 'd come from , and they told him : ‘ Come back in an hour 's time and we 'll see . ’
24 The monster discovered who his creator was and where he lived when he found some papers as a result he travelled to Geneva .
25 He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television
26 Well it was but whether it 's erm try it again from cold I think .
27 In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man .
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