Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was usually the active partner , or rather it was usually I who initiated a kiss or an embrace . |
| 2 | I have done just this , or rather it was thrust upon me . |
| 3 | We think an oil heater may have overturned — or perhaps it was left too close to some curtains . |
| 4 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it was Toscanini . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | PERHAPS it was the presence of TV cameras on the company 's Fleet Street trading floor , or perhaps it was a genuine surge of Conservative support , but for some reason a number of staff at Goldman Sachs were instructed to wear blue shirts , ties and braces for election day . |
| 8 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 12 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 13 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 14 | Or perhaps it was the combination of moon , surf , and acoustic guitars . |
| 15 | It was the only horse so far which was the right size and the right shape — or perhaps it was only the spots that detracted from Jazz 's mount . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 17 | Or perhaps it was Lord Rawlinson , the Lord Chancellor manque and former Attorney General ? |
| 18 | Princess Anne smiled at me as she went by , or Perhaps it was just my imagination . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it was kind of Alan . |
| 20 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 21 | Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut , taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it . |
| 22 | Harry nodded , or perhaps it was the threatening clatter of his teeth which caused his head to simulate assent . |
| 23 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 24 | Or perhaps it was not so much my feelings that had changed as my thoughts . |
| 25 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 26 | Or perhaps it was his imagination . |
| 27 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 28 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was a system glitch . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was when Margaret Thatcher locked the prime minister away behind heavy iron gates . |