Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 2 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it had . |
| 6 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 7 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it followed from that carefully nurtured tradition of political and religious toleration which was seen even by foreigners as a distinctively English achievement in the era of parliamentary government . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble . |
| 10 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 11 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 12 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 13 | All the mosquitoes in the orchard were in my trench last night , or so it seemed ! |
| 14 | To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed . |
| 15 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 16 | After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily . |
| 17 | Finally , after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions — or so it seemed — we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi . |
| 18 | The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air . |
| 19 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 20 | If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines . |
| 21 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |
| 22 | For many years — or so it seemed — he appeared in EastEnders as the lovable barman Wicksy . |
| 23 | But I did n't have to push too hard that day , everything was going his way , or so it seemed . |
| 24 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 25 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 26 | Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick . |
| 27 | In seconds , or so it seemed , the Glory was mounting the rutted track up to Monument Hill . |
| 28 | However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward . |
| 29 | Venables fixed an abseil peg , a bomber angle … or so it seemed . |
| 30 | The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed . |