Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather I know that happiness waits here for those who know where to look . |
| 2 | Nenna had forgotten about Gordon , or rather she assumed that he must have gone away , but he had not . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 5 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 6 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 7 | Or perhaps it proves that women tend to try to be attractive to upstage one another and they completely forget that men are going to find them attractive too . ’ |
| 8 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 11 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 12 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 13 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 14 | Peering between the uprights of the gate , I saw that the horse stood before Frankenstein 's gate harnessed to a phaeton — or so I believe that type of carriage was called ; it was open and had four wheels . |
| 15 | Touch-legering is not necessary , or so I think when the line is snatched from my fingers and the rod slams over from a vicious bite . |
| 16 | After fifty yards or so he sensed that something was wrong . |
| 17 | What saves an ordinary cat from being over-mauled is the fact that sooner or later it struggles and scratches . |
| 18 | It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself . |
| 19 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 20 | Stunned , I wobbled outside , where fortunately I found that the rain had stopped falling . |
| 21 | He played quickly , and then tranquilly ; once or twice he stopped and retook a phrase . |
| 22 | Erm , and has , we have n't got anybody here who has relatives living in Canada , erm , but once or twice I found that people recognised that because , they 've been to Canada , visit relatives and they they they they therefore know and they they 've heard . |
| 23 | Despite all her caution , her wriggling movements made Water Gypsy sway a little at her moorings , and once or twice she stopped and held her breath , but no movement or challenge came from the narrow boat 's main cabin . |
| 24 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 25 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 26 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 27 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 28 | The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move . |
| 29 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 30 | To which of the Bedfordshire boys hast thou disposed thy heart that thus it mopes and pants to be with him ? |