Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 2 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 3 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 4 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 5 | Or may or maybe it 's tomorrow or Friday , it 's some time this week but she 's not sixteen yet . |
| 6 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |
| 7 | Or maybe it 's just that when you are away from home you feel more adventurous . |
| 8 | Or maybe it 's just that there is a course that teaches advertising and marketing , which is relatively new in itself . |
| 9 | But I do n't know quite why it is — maybe that 's one area where I do find there 's a bit of segregation , or maybe it 's just that people do n't have the time available , but it 's a different sector of the community who are working with the basic things like helping the old and the infirm more , just being able to give cups of coffee to people , or chatting to them , or visiting them , or whatever . |
| 10 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 11 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 12 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 13 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
| 14 | Yeah and also it 's like if you a personality here then you 're doomed . |
| 15 | And now it was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that . |
| 16 | I willed you to come and you did and now you are here and I 'm never going to let you out of my sight again . |
| 17 | Think I must be blushing , and maybe she is too or is it her English rose complexion kissed , fuck , there I go , kissed ( I should be so lucky ! ) by sudden Mediterranean sunshine ? |
| 18 | You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know . |
| 19 | If he did see it he must have begun worrying , and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick . |
| 20 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 21 | Well he 'd go , er we lived at this t time in Road , well you went up the top of Road and then you were across and on into Forrest . |
| 22 | and then I was away and he was n't there any more and I thought , what do I do now ? |
| 23 | And then it 's like as though they 've had them long windows , you know ? |
| 24 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
| 25 | And there he is now or I 'm a Dutchman . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed it is ironic that the weaker regions of a country tend to " catch-up " most in times of expansion , and yet it is partly because of the regional differences that inflationary pressures emerge and induce policies which prevent further gains . |
| 27 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 28 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 29 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |