Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard wines from the estate are not to be sniffed at — or rather they repay careful nosing , especially the unusually ripe but fresh and balanced Pinot Blanc ( £5.49 ) , and the highly perfumed Muscat ( £6.99 ) . |
| 2 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 3 | Or perhaps they felt shy anyway , seeing her here where she did n't belong . |
| 4 | The psychoanalysis can be used to a limited extent , despite more collective , historical roles er , within disagreed over conflicts in people , or perhaps you say that all the time . |
| 5 | He looked worried — or perhaps he looked thwarted . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she gets two hundred pounds a week pocket money right ? |
| 7 | Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 8 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 9 | Its disadvantages are as follows : ( 1 ) If regulatory and common law rules are to operate harmoniously , the former must replicate the latter , or alternatively it posits two independent systems of regulation , one operating in the regulatory context and the other in the ordinary courts . |
| 10 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
| 11 | Or maybe we sold some of the gear . |
| 12 | Once or twice we put these qualities to good use . |
| 13 | Once or twice I saw few other shapeless human figures prodding listlessly with crude implements at the dust among such rows . |
| 14 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 15 | ‘ He 's got to make a mistake , ’ Culley said , ‘ or else we get lucky . ’ |
| 16 | Marie keeps cornflakes and stuff in the room , and if there 's any milk we have that , or else we have some toast and jam . |
| 17 | Here most such movements appear to be reactions against the centralisation of state , economic or cultural power , against bureaucratisation , or else they express various other local or sectional discontents capable of being wrapped in coloured banners . |
| 18 | Cut off from normal social intercourse with the adult world , relieved of inhibition by the ethos of the Permissive Society , the students were apt to run wild , indulging in promiscuous sex and experimenting with drugs , or else they turned melancholy mad . |
| 19 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 20 | You do n't dust your computer or anything , or else you get all them colours . |
| 21 | You have to maintain a balance or else you go crazy . |
| 22 | When the other rabbit spoke , however , it was clear that either he had no interest in what Hazel had said , or else he had some other reason for not questioning him . |
| 23 | However , as Colin Gray indicated , they are either within striking distance of current LASMO operations — where it would be relatively straightforward and economical to tie in a smaller discovery to an existing field — or otherwise they offer such exciting prospects as possibly to warrant major investment . |
| 24 | Because when you were trained in those days you only had two children or otherwise you had another nanny if you had more . |
| 25 | There 's a café on the site , and luckily it stays open late , so come along . ’ |
| 26 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 27 | I had asked similar questions and was advised to try Jones + Brother with the result that I bought a KA881 with ribber and eventually we made some lovely garments together . |
| 28 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
| 29 | Ricky put an arm round her shoulders , but made no pass and eventually she fell asleep . |
| 30 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |