Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reminded him of someone , or rather he felt he had met her before . |
| 2 | He looked at Jimmy Boyce , or rather he looked at his tie — all red and blue , almost patriotic , and yet the tie still hung at that curious angle . |
| 3 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 4 | He did n't seem to hear , or rather he chose not to . |
| 5 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 6 | Heredia is ‘ hard ’ , but there or thereabouts he ends . |
| 7 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 8 | Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) . |
| 9 | Or perhaps he knew something unsavoury about Latimer 's personal life . |
| 10 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
| 11 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 12 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 13 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 14 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 15 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 17 | Or perhaps he had already found them . |
| 18 | Or perhaps he had a premonition of the huge effort that lay ahead if he was to extricate France from a crisis in Algeria that had reached the verge of insolubility . |
| 19 | Perhaps her mother had convinced him that Shiona was incapable of such behaviour , or perhaps he had n't needed any convincing . |
| 20 | Or perhaps he cheered up and they had to get rid of him . |
| 21 | But perhaps Evan still thinks too much , or perhaps he does n't think enough or , then again , perhaps he does n't really think at all … |
| 22 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 23 | Or perhaps he does n't . |
| 24 | Or perhaps he thought , if he was rude enough , she would cry off . |
| 25 | Or perhaps he 'd simply lost interest in the diversions of aesthetes . |
| 26 | He looked worried — or perhaps he looked thwarted . |
| 27 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 28 | He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing . |
| 29 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 30 | Or perhaps he has intentionally made the ‘ syntax error ’ in order to alert people to the danger of their nuclear inventions . |