Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 32 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 33 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
| 34 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 35 | Beauty is , however , only skin deep , or so they tell us . |
| 36 | Or so they tell me . ) |
| 37 | Or so they claim . |
| 38 | Currently on the market are two programs that allow , or so they claim , any printing device to emulate a real PostScript printer . |
| 39 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 40 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |
| 41 | Or so they say . |
| 42 | Petrolia Cats and dogs sense the earthquake 's imminence , or so they say . |
| 43 | Timing is everything , or so they say . |
| 44 | X marks the spot , or so they say . |
| 45 | On a clear day you can see as far as Dublin from the Great Car of Donard ( or so they say ) , but mist or heat haze have always foreshortened the view for me . |
| 46 | Over the past year or so they have appointed a new captain , coach , and secretary . |
| 47 | In the past year or so they have launched major design and marketing efforts for factory automation systems . |
| 48 | Or so they believe . ’ |
| 49 | Most businesses give monthly or 30-day terms — or so they think . |
| 50 | Or so they think . |
| 51 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 52 | Or so they seem in isolation . |
| 53 | We 're going to make so much money out of oysters that the 5 million or so you 've got against me will look like chicken feed . |
| 54 | ‘ After all , you 're not Irish — or so you keep telling me . ’ |
| 55 | You know I do n't care whether they think I 'm stupid or so you see . |
| 56 | Go to Amsterdam , and the Dutch will take 92.8p , including VAT ; a mere 52 per cent of the £1.78 or so you pay . |
| 57 | If you find that after a day or so you have aches and pains that wo n't go away , shower again , using hot water for three minutes and cold for one on the affected area . |
| 58 | Within a minute or so you have one fully rejuvenated disk drive , hopefully . |
| 59 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 60 | There are Houseparties on several other Greek islands , in Menorca ( with its own pool and tennis court ) , on the Algarve ( own pool ) , and at a lovely location in Kenya on Diani Beach , where once you 've gawped at the game there 's a centre to distract you with windsurfing , SCUBA diving and sailing just a few yards through the palm trees . |