Example sentences of "or [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christmas carols blared tinnily from a loudspeaker system overhead and from every shop window , or so it seemed , the public was reminded that only four more shopping days remained until Christmas . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 34 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Mingling , what 's more , with Dorcas gang members , or so it seemed ? |
| 38 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 39 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 40 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 41 | So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many . |
| 42 | 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 ' . |
| 43 | Or so it seemed . |
| 44 | Out of a clear sky , or so it seemed to them . |
| 45 | First it was something good , or so it seemed to me . |
| 46 | She was content with twigs and cells , or so it seemed . |
| 47 | Or so it seemed . |
| 48 | Or so it seemed . |
| 49 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 50 | In the abbot 's parlour Tutilo had a larger audience than Cadfael had bargained for , but welcomed it , or so it seemed , perhaps as leavening further the bleak reception he could expect from Herluin . |
| 51 | Or so it seemed . |
| 52 | And Dorothy turns , red-faced from her brew , or so it seemed . |
| 53 | In the hall , he helped her on with her coat , his hand resting on her shoulder for a moment — or so it seemed . |
| 54 | Or so it seemed to him . |
| 55 | The phone rang for ten minutes , or so it seemed , before Dexter answered . |
| 56 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 57 | For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many . |
| 58 | And Timothy Gedge smiled at her , claiming her , or so it seemed . |
| 59 | Eventually the Uniformitarian cause won — or so it seemed — and Catastrophism became an old-fashioned joke . |
| 60 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |