Example sentences of "or was it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. or was it her sister ? |
| 2 | There seemed to be a sudden restraint between them , or was it her imagination ? |
| 3 | Or was it her own ? |
| 4 | Or was it her growing fear that he might wield another kind of power ? |
| 5 | Or was it her heart ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The question is , was either of them in Paris that weekend , or was it somebody else we do n't know about ? |
| 8 | Or was it themselves ? |
| 9 | Or was it something else ? |
| 10 | Or was it something men took responsibility for ? |
| 11 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 12 | Or was it something else ? |
| 13 | Or was it something worse ? |
| 14 | Or was it something like , you know , the Conservative Party ? |
| 15 | Was it the monstrous , heaving power of the waters confronting me , or was it my conscious awareness of the dead of a great city . |
| 16 | Or was it she who was different now ? |
| 17 | Or was it she who was more receptive ? |
| 18 | While I was writing , I remembered what Vern — or was it his dad ? — had said about speaking to your dream . |
| 19 | Was he a savage creature with evil designs on me or was it his idea of a joke ? |
| 20 | Or was it his condemned human ballast — |
| 21 | Or was it his anti-self — |
| 22 | Strange light , or was it his eyes ? |
| 23 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 24 | But did Didi love him , or was it his wealth , his position in life , his talent that she cared about ? |
| 25 | Or was it his little girl ? |
| 26 | Did someone send you to go through Marek 's things , or was it you who made the decision ? ’ |
| 27 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 28 | And was the mysterious woman the murder victim or was it someone else ? |