Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 2 | She had a conscience — or rather she had what was an Asian 's limited version of a social morality , the strong sense of a favour done and an obligation to requite . |
| 3 | Nenna had forgotten about Gordon , or rather she assumed that he must have gone away , but he had not . |
| 4 | ‘ Or rather she said . |
| 5 | As every woman knows , her hair is her crowning glory , or rather she knows that it should be , but there are those of us who are unhappily aware that , too often , our looks fall down on the job . |
| 6 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 7 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 8 | Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change . |
| 9 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 10 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 11 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 12 | Or perhaps she thought she could always pretend to be a relative and come and claim me from the hospital . |
| 13 | Or perhaps she took a swig of sherry . |
| 14 | Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come . |
| 15 | Or perhaps she gets two hundred pounds a week pocket money right ? |
| 16 | I think she was jealous because you paid no attention to her , or perhaps she wants to capture Papa 's , but has not . |
| 17 | She loved the handsome prince who was soon to be crowned , and he loved her — or so she believed . |
| 18 | Constance had reassured them , or so she hoped : she had tried to alleviate their suspicions by explaining that Barbs was just like that . |
| 19 | Every now and again — or so she 'd been told — the owners would call in the books . |
| 20 | She 'd cast the infuriating Viking from her mind ages before — or so she 'd believed . |
| 21 | If she had learned to be self-effacing , cultivated a mysterious absence or aloofness they might forget her altogether , or so she feared deep down , not openly , not admitting to herself this appalling possibility . |
| 22 | She regretted she would not be seeing Urquhart again for only one reason , or so she told herself . |
| 23 | She could have struggled , but it would n't have gained her anything ; he was too strong , or so she told herself . |
| 24 | But when she was drinking , she was ( or so she told herself ) perfectly conscious of all her thoughts and actions . |
| 25 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 26 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 27 | ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks . |
| 28 | The shot slipped from his grasp and nearly flattened the Head 's wife who was standing at a safe distance ( or so she thought ) behind the thrower . |
| 29 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 30 | It was also a job in which Selina was able to call the shots , or so she thought . |