Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | She reminded him of someone , or rather he felt he had met her before . |
| 4 | ‘ You do know a Jo , Carol , ’ said ‘ You brought her up here once , or rather you got her to drive you here in that big flash Jaguar . |
| 5 | The brides usually keep their bouquets , or rather whoever caught them does . |
| 6 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) . |
| 8 | He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing . |
| 9 | Or perhaps she thought she could always pretend to be a relative and come and claim me from the hospital . |
| 10 | More or less you see them coming a mile off now . |
| 11 | More or less I think it went against the entries because the members just would n't turn up to the meetings . |
| 12 | Ah , Mary , Mary Shelley , how dear you were and are , beyond all women — and yet what was possible then was only possible because we were mere phantoms in the world , or so we saw it , and scarcely less than phantoms to each other . |
| 13 | Similar sort of guitar work apparently or so they tell me . |
| 14 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 15 | In the twenty minutes or so it took them to reach the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia basked in the warmth of her happy memories of her splendid morning . |
| 16 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 17 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 18 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 19 | ( Or so he told me . |
| 20 | Or so he told me . |
| 21 | He set to , learning the dyeing business but , soon after , a mistake gave Stevenson his big chance — or so he tells it . |
| 22 | McRae had a minor prang — or so he calls it — on his way to the trees . |
| 23 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 24 | Or anyway he sold me timber . ’ |
| 25 | The board of directors of the target company have to give their opinion on the offer and make it clear whether or not they recommend it . |
| 26 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
| 27 | Whether or not they expected it when they were first elected , nearly all of them will have learned to accept ant to derive fulfilment from the ‘ welfare ’ function . |
| 28 | If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it . |
| 29 | Whether or not they consider it appropriate to enter the European Eco audit systems when it appears , using the new standard will certainly give a company ( and its other clients and audiences ) confidence in the knowledge that they 're tackling environmental concerns in a systematic and integrated way . ’ |
| 30 | The acceptance of the decision , whether or not they believe it to be morally correct , is of the essence of the legal device , the very idea of law . |