Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persuaded him to be ashamed of snobbishness — or perhaps I only taught him to keep his true feelings from me . |
| 2 | She hesitated a minute , or perhaps I only thought she did . |
| 3 | Or so I still hoped . |
| 4 | Or so I stupidly thought … |
| 5 | Today or tomorrow I really should put down some more fertilizer particularly on those brown patches there are some brown strips in the front lawn . |
| 6 | They seem to have peaked in the winter when nature itself can be grey enough , or maybe I just remember them as peaking in the winter . |
| 7 | ‘ Or maybe I just do n't see too much to laugh about at the moment . |
| 8 | Or maybe I just discovered something to do with the style or the line of his cruelty . |
| 9 | Or maybe I always knew the truth , somehow … |
| 10 | Maybe I 've forgotten or maybe I never knew , but just plain walking in night streets with a pretty girl is the happiest thing you can do in this world . |
| 11 | After singing through the song once or twice I then say . |
| 12 | Either I have to give you so much information about myself that you are forced to admit that I could no more have killed my wife than Flaubert could have committed suicide ; or else I merely say , That 's all , that 's enough . |
| 13 | I 've been with your dad that long I just |
| 14 | Well how I 'm supposed to sleep with him playing music that loud I really do n't ! |
| 15 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 16 | I ca n't see that honestly I just , I just |
| 17 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's more than likely I just imagined something was going on behind the scenes . |
| 19 | Come on , you take the stuff down and rather me just try and . |
| 20 | During daylight most barbel will be sheltering and so I also look for cover in the form of weed beds , deep hollows and undercut banks . |
| 21 | And so I just started playing it and the other guys started improvising around me . |
| 22 | It was totally outside my experience and so I just stood there and walked out . |
| 23 | I had n't really sorted anything out socially or whatever and so I just got back into it . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 25 | They 're not on letter headings and so I just thought they might be |
| 26 | and so I just need my salad stuff till another time |
| 27 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 29 | On my own the aircraft was a lot lighter and so I soon reached 1,000 feet , the circuit height . |
| 30 | But I work in the City and so I fully understand the risk element . ’ |