Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gorengs ' effects made the sea-passage with us ; or rather we made the passage with the effects , for that was the whole idea . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 3 | We come to a river , absent from my map , where suddenly I see the plains and both banks smeared with colour . |
| 4 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 5 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 6 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 7 | By contrast , during the century or so which separated the Reformation from the civil war , very few English parish churches were built or substantially renovated . |
| 8 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 9 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 10 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 11 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 12 | Over the next twenty years or so he established the basis of the homoeopathic materia medica . |
| 13 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 14 | If economic catastrophe is added to the political disintegration , the consequences for Europe could be dire , not only in terms of the millions of refugees who are already predicted , but possibly through the sale of nuclear weapons to any body of people or any Government in the third world or elsewhere who have the hard currency to pay for them . |
| 15 | One , as it were , to pick out addresses , one to pick out socio-economic groups , one to pick out motor cars , one to pick out number of bedrooms , one to pick out whatever , and trivially or , or superficially everyone says the same thing , a database , it 's on the database , now |
| 16 | They may never have closely observed the play , perhaps thinking it was boring or just something to keep the children out of their way . |
| 17 | But their new life may be worse than their old as they struggle to repay the $15,000 or more they owe the smuggler . |
| 18 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 19 | ‘ Sooner or later you hit the Lower Road . |
| 20 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was institutions like the dowry system which made the East African Asian Patels status conscious , or maybe they used the dowry with such enthusiasm because they had become so preoccupied with status as a result of their role in East Africa . |
| 22 | Or maybe you prefer the cold and the rain of the Commando Training Centre ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Or maybe you like the fresh lemonade ? ’ |
| 24 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 25 | Where sometimes we had the back of the heads and |
| 26 | No matter how easy or hard you find the work , our aim is to develop your potential to the full . |
| 27 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 28 | From the point of view of social and economic policy I believe we face a choice : either we accept the present trends which will lead inevitably to a decline in individual freedom and responsibility and the restriction of opportunities for our children and grandchildren or else we face the seemingly impossible task of dismantling the corporate state . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , Katie , she 's an old miser and everyone borrows money off her or else they buy the things you knit off her . |
| 30 | Rosa Luxemburg was full of scorn — ‘ such a formula expresses either absolutely nothing , so that it is an empty non-committal phrase , or else it expresses the unconditional duty of socialists to support all national aspirations , in which case it is simply false ’ . |