Example sentences of "or [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 2 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 3 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 4 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 10 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 11 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 12 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 13 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 14 | She 'd cast the infuriating Viking from her mind ages before — or so she 'd believed . |
| 15 | Better , at all costs , however , or so she had reasoned , to put twenty miles and a border between him and a hanging . |
| 16 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 17 | Or so she had said . |
| 18 | The divorce had been talked over thoroughly in New York , or so she had thought . |
| 19 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 20 | There had been the lot , or so it had seemed , at Cambridge : socialists , communists , socialites , die-hard dinner-jacketed Pitt Club Tories , Bohemians , Christians , lacrosse and rugger players , sloggers , poets , actors , Leavisites , wits , bores , eccentrics , homosexuals ; to Cambridge they flocked , from ancient grammar-schools , upstart grammar-schools , progressive schools , public schools , private schools , even from private tutors in the South of France . |
| 21 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 22 | Or so he had kept on telling her . |
| 23 | However , for the last 6 months or so he had ceased to make regular efforts to find a job . |
| 24 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 25 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 26 | However , after a year or so he had recovered from all his problems except cribbing and an occasional bout of colic . |
| 27 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 28 | The 375 years since it was unearthed seems to be short when compared to the 900 years or more it had lain buried . |
| 29 | And every bill dated November or later he got discounted at once and turned into cash . |
| 30 | Sooner or later he 'd known that he would tell the truth . |