Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 2 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 3 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 4 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 5 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 6 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 7 | ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy . |
| 8 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 9 | Or perhaps you 've found that you can not make a square turn to the right like those you find so easy to the left . |
| 10 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 11 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 12 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 14 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 15 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 16 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 17 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 18 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 19 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 20 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 21 | But over the last year or so we 've developed a solid state equivalent , which has no moving parts at all . |
| 22 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 23 | We believe that this common factor is so important that during the past year or so we have experimented in ways of bringing the participants together to discuss their ideas and to foster the creation of a spirit of community . |
| 24 | ‘ In the last ten years or so we have developed a number of ancillary services , which have grown out of our core business . |
| 25 | Or so one had to assume . |
| 26 | She 'd cast the infuriating Viking from her mind ages before — or so she 'd believed . |
| 27 | Better , at all costs , however , or so she had reasoned , to put twenty miles and a border between him and a hanging . |
| 28 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 29 | Or so she had said . |
| 30 | The divorce had been talked over thoroughly in New York , or so she had thought . |