Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he moved them healthily or unhealthily is another matter . |
| 2 | No such clear-cut patterns emerge when looking at the substance of their preferences : whom they had chosen to comment on , and whether they regarded them favourably or unfavourably . |
| 3 | ‘ Her letters only mentioned you once or twice — in the early days — just after her mother married your father , and then only by your pen name . |
| 4 | I found it more or less buried in the mud , underneath where the body had been . |
| 5 | ‘ I visited it once or twice too often before you were born , ’ he said . |
| 6 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 7 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 8 | Threatened her once or twice . |
| 9 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 10 | And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er |
| 11 | But he alleged Ian hit him once or twice . |
| 12 | But he alleged Ian hit him once or twice . |
| 13 | I met her once or twice , at church and at other houses where there were children of our age . |
| 14 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 15 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 16 | I saw her once or twice since , before the Coconut closed , but not for ages now . |
| 17 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 18 | What frustrated his old fans was that when he went it more or less alone , as on 1982 's masterfully stark and turbulent Music For A New Society , Cale produced what he also regards as his best album , ‘ because all the old pain was right there . ’ |
| 19 | We got it there or thereabouts for sales executives right ? the area development exec job but we did n't get it right we were two grand adrift quite clearly demonstrable evidence that we were two grand adrift on that pay and I 've asked now to agree to upping the pay level and if he does we might get some decent people and then we worry about the ramifications of that afterwards , yeah ? |
| 20 | He , he did it once or twice , had to give up when he got to the mouth of the River Orwell because he mistimed the currents but he did , he did eventually do it from Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 21 | While , as has been seen , the actual chances of victimisation are less than many people believe , nonetheless , in Granby , for example , three quarters of those interviewed believe there are real Asks for women who go out at night and half said they often or always avoid going out after dark . |
| 22 | It rattled it once or twice , peered in through the wire mesh of the gate , stamped around for a bit , and then drove off . |