Example sentences of "or maybe the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weekend starts innocently enough , perhaps with a school reunion , the reading of a will or maybe the birth of a new political party , and there are all sorts of suspects — a takeover tycoon , possibly , or a young heir with gambling debts . |
| 2 | Or maybe the pinkie was skragged as a trophy ? |
| 3 | One source of interest can be a description of where the interview has taken place , perhaps a studio , or maybe the artist 's home . |
| 4 | Or maybe the landscape was his mirror , and he was just seeing himself . |
| 5 | At the start of the massage close your eyes and visualise ( or feel ) a source of energy above your head : a ball of white light , or maybe the Sun . |
| 6 | Or maybe the sun on white stucco ( really London was much prettier than one remembered ) or the cheerful scarlet of buses or the continuously satisfying recollection of the terns and the oblivious complacency of pink tie and striped shirt in their sealed air-conditioned office . |
| 7 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 8 | Or maybe the mission had failed but she had survived . |
| 9 | Or maybe the spectrum of smells is perceived in some way similar to our human perception of colour . |
| 10 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 11 | Towards the end of November 1944 , or maybe the beginning of December , we had the usual succession of dark days before Christmas , made worse by thick , penetrating fog . |
| 12 | Win either a Vision Gator deck , or maybe an SMA Alan Peterson , or maybe the brand new Powell Cab deck ! |
| 13 | either the living room or the study or maybe the kitchen . |
| 14 | But I will take such things as the brickwork , or maybe the roof tiles into account , and work to achieve a complementary landscape . ’ |
| 15 | Her mother was much too young to have a calf but the gate got left open , or maybe the bull knocked it down , and she was conceived . |
| 16 | This 's the Three-Moon Festival or maybe the Ceremony of the Inner Spiral , I ferget . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is beyond their intellectual grasp ; or maybe the language it is couched in is too complex . |
| 18 | Or maybe the planet might be a savage jungle … |
| 19 | User demand could see it use Destiny in spots of course , or maybe the Destiny binary UnixWare , but there 's no love lost between Novell and NCR , which supports LanMan instead . |
| 20 | His car was an extraordinary contraption , an ancient Ford truck from which some amateur carpenter ( or maybe the ship 's chandler ? ) had stripped off a ten-hundredweight body , and on the chassis had erected a kind of ambulance — with a stretcher bed in it and one chair firmly screwed to the floorboards . |
| 21 | Cats most likely , or maybe the fox . |
| 22 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 23 | Or maybe the gun gave her the guts . |
| 24 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |