Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Jimmy Boyce , or rather he looked at his tie — all red and blue , almost patriotic , and yet the tie still hung at that curious angle . |
| 2 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 3 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 4 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 5 | It was such wacky financial apportionments as this that — or so he claimed to me — made him a voguish and sought-after practitioner . |
| 6 | Of course the first prerequisite was that he should be able to know his colleagues ' views before deciding whether or not he agreed with them , so he needed access to their report before it was officially released . |
| 7 | He was in many ways a remarkable Prime Minister , although there were obviously faults — and some grave faults — that history alone will assess in determining whether or not he ranks among the greats . |
| 8 | Provided that the service is to be paid for , the accused is guilty whether or not he acted for gain . |
| 9 | As he never questioned the basic principles of Roman expansion , we should not waste our time in trying to decide whether or not he approved of the destruction of Carthage . |
| 10 | Where once he felt like giving up , he now has the zeal and determination to push further and harder and keep on going until there is real change in the way mankind behaves . |
| 11 | Perhaps he regained his old power in the Badlands and rebuilt his domain , or maybe he fell to the sword stroke of an ambitious young Orc Warboss before ever reaching the Iron Rock . |
| 12 | Babur feels fuck them , or maybe he trusts to human tolerance . |
| 13 | He does n't talk about what 's happening in his life or how he feels about anything . |
| 14 | Once or twice he winced as a particularly tough fragment of carbon cracked between his molars , then he closed his eyes and swallowed . |
| 15 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 16 | When it comes to working out how or where he got in the river , maybe we can help . |
| 17 | I 've no idea who he was , or where he came from . ’ |
| 18 | He does n't know who he is , or where he comes from . ’ |
| 19 | The second class of locative , or local names , are , as hinted in the last sentence , based on place names — such as where a man lived , where he held land , or where he hailed from . |
| 20 | Mr Barter said : ‘ There was no indication of when , where or why he got into the water . ’ |
| 21 | Nobody 's bothered about Pike or how or why he went through Mr Marr 's pockets , cleaned out his ID , took his keys and squatted in the house to acquaint himself with the principles of ufology . |
| 22 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 23 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 24 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 25 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 26 | He loitered in the wings , although usually he sat in his dressing-room until the curtain rose on the Mermaid 's Lagoon . |
| 27 | Miller had also known this to flower at Hampton Court , although more than once he speaks with some disparagement of inefficient gardeners at this Palace . |
| 28 | Biddy brought some tapes of circus-sounding music and Uncle Bean played them in his car , and Spot stood up on his hindlegs and Jazz fell off more heavily than ever he had at a jump . |
| 29 | Unguarded remarks by Truman on 30 November on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea precipitated in Westminster what Roy Jenkins has described as a " mood of near panic " far worse than any he experienced throughout his entire political career . |
| 30 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |