Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather I know that happiness waits here for those who know where to look . |
| 2 | I can just see the Waste , or rather I think it must be the Waste , for there 's a tower there and it 's bare of trees . |
| 3 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 4 | She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’ |
| 5 | And not long before we left school , the poetical stage when we read poetry out of doors , or rather I did , while he listened . |
| 6 | I made a decision , or rather I hedged my bets . |
| 7 | We come to a river , absent from my map , where suddenly I see the plains and both banks smeared with colour . |
| 8 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 9 | ‘ Or perhaps I mean a hurricane . |
| 10 | Or perhaps I made a mistake : you can see which I 'd rather believe . |
| 11 | Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook . |
| 12 | Or perhaps I had better have another brandy first . ’ |
| 13 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 14 | or perhaps I make a rissole sometimes , but not put any onion |
| 15 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 16 | Or perhaps I do . |
| 17 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 18 | Or perhaps I flatter myself . ’ |
| 19 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 20 | fairly elementary surveying but more or less I know how to use |
| 21 | More or less I think it went against the entries because the members just would n't turn up to the meetings . |
| 22 | But it seems clear that I was diverting the feeling of cold , which pertains to the body , away from the physical and into the psychological realm , where alone I believed myself to exist . |
| 23 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 24 | You loved me yesterday , or so I believed . |
| 25 | Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’ |
| 26 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 27 | about the last month or so I 've felt it getting slower . |
| 28 | A two-shot pistol — and keen to use it , or so I 've ‘ eard . |
| 29 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 30 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |