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Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1	One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result .
2	Or rather they seemed to be . ’
3	( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . )
4	It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores .
5	Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble .
6	Within a mile or less they came to a stream .
7	The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere .
8	His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him .
9	Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick .
10	We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house .
11	She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance .
12	The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there .
13	The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man .
14	Or so it seemed to Jaq .
15	So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many .
16	It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' .
17	Out of a clear sky , or so it seemed to them .
18	First it was something good , or so it seemed to me .
19	Or so it seemed to Scott .
20	Or so it seemed to him .
21	Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand .
22	For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many .
23	It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie .
24	The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made .
25	Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories .
26	They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet .
27	Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors .
28	With legs stretched out and with no space to flex a muscle — or so it seems to the beginner — a sneeze might unbalance the boat .
29	He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand .
30	Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day .