Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a decision , or rather I hedged my bets . |
| 2 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 3 | A lot of us go to Exhibitions and come home with real bargains ( or so we tell our husbands ! ) . |
| 4 | During the next half hour or so he asked his sailing master if he was happy with the speed of the ship . |
| 5 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 6 | Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness — — ‘ The good Lord gives us all certain gifts ’ — but not much . |
| 7 | Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , |
| 8 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 9 | ‘ Or maybe he thought your dad was bound for the other place . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Or maybe you fancied your chances with her , eh ? ’ |
| 11 | Once or twice they lost their way but Cranston still kept his dagger unsheathed and soon they had reached Whitefriars and were back into Fleet Street . |
| 12 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 13 | In Surrey and Sussex , for example , customary tenures were still common in the seventeenth century , but just across the border in Kent they were rare ; Kentish families were either freeholders or else they held their land on a yearly basis or by a lease for a term of years . |
| 14 | ‘ That expectation makes me freeze up and feel very shy and nervous , or else it makes my try too hard and I just end up feeling awkward . |
| 15 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 16 | But she was aware that perhaps she underestimated his acceptability to the parochial clergy , who were not threatened by his gentleness . |
| 17 | A quarrel ensues in which the television characters argue that they are more deserving of prayer than novelistic characters because the latter have a far longer life ; the characters from novels insist that only they need their existences reinforced because only they are in danger of losing their audience . |
| 18 | And more than once he lost his way because he was remembering the bluest eyes he had ever seen . |
| 19 | As we move into the single market , it is more important than ever we keep our inflation level at or below those of our competitors . |
| 20 | More than ever he resembled his namesake , the giant Alaskan brown bear , a beast that also rollocks cheerfully through northern waters , sending spray flying with enormous paws . |
| 21 | ‘ My father and I are physical counterparts : and during these days more than ever I notice his resemblance to me … ’ he mused . |
| 22 | In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour . |
| 23 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 24 | Off she went ‘ to see ’ and eventually I got my two pieces of wholemeal , well more or less wholemeal , bread . |
| 25 | As time passed she could be halted for longer and longer intervals , and eventually she forgot her rearing habit altogether . |
| 26 | He moved towards her , and instinctively she lifted her face for his kiss . |
| 27 | She was unlike anybody else he had ever met and secretly he found her intriguing . |
| 28 | And slowly he took her hand and drew her to the window and there , pointing , said , ‘ Look at that ! |
| 29 | And slowly he let his sorrows spill . |
| 30 | And the people [ of Hellas ] came out of their doors and felt the spiritual stir in the air lightly move the soft hair across the forehead and cool the ray of [ divine ] light , and gladly they loosened their robes to take it to their breast : they breathed more sweetly , touched more fondly the light , clear , caressing sea in which they lived and moved . " |