Example sentences of "or so it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Counts of Angoulême and La Marche submitted , while , in a notorious incident , one of their allies , Robert de Seilhac , died — or so it was believed — as a result of the harsh treatment he received in Henry 's prison . |
| 2 | The RCM held aloof for the same reason that it kept out of Poland — the resources did not stretch to additional responsibilities , or so it was argued . |
| 3 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 4 | Or so it was said . |
| 5 | It was too big to have fallen down the plug-hole , or so it was reckoned . |
| 6 | At best , or so it was thought , it would give the United Nations some muscle to stop governments doing terrible things to their peoples ; at worst it would serve up a forest of platitude . |
| 7 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 8 | Its exclusion from major anthologies made doubly sure that after a generation or so it was read by almost no one . |
| 9 | Or so it was speculated . |