Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 2 | Or rather it is proved — by sleight of hand ; for if the little scene is not momentous , how did it come to be framed , in all its sparsity , by so much white paper ? |
| 3 | I have done just this , or rather it was thrust upon me . |
| 4 | Or rather she 's looking at the screen and that 's what happens to be on . |
| 5 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Or perhaps they are working in Britain and having to interpret the culture that is all around them . |
| 7 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 8 | Or perhaps they 're attracted by New York State 's international business atmosphere . |
| 9 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it 's belting out Slade 's greatest hits with your best friends and a bottle of wine ? |
| 11 | Once again , the best way to open the sequence is to establish the location with a wide shot which shows the character of the setting : maybe it 's one of those idyllic places which the crowds have not yet discovered , or perhaps it is crammed with people and overlooked by tourist hotels . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 13 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 14 | We think an oil heater may have overturned — or perhaps it was left too close to some curtains . |
| 15 | Or perhaps you are thinking of moving house or redesigning the furniture in your living room — here Design Your Own Home Interiors may help . |
| 16 | Or perhaps you 're going to wash your hands of the whole business ? |
| 17 | ‘ Or perhaps you were using me to make her jealous ? ’ she suggested tartly . |
| 18 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps some other Allens lived next door in Marathon Avenue or perhaps I was born in Victoria Road . |
| 20 | Or perhaps he 's going up in his van or some I du n no ! |
| 21 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 22 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 23 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 24 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 25 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 26 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 27 | Or perhaps she was falling apart already , she thought a little wildly , and she just had n't realised it . |
| 28 | Well it more or less , it more or less it was accepted . |
| 29 | It was one of the cleverest retorts of his childhood ; it went down in family history , and it won him — or so we are left to assume — readership of the novel . |
| 30 | Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids . |