Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A man she had never seen before or since came at night .
2 Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey .
3 It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam .
4 You more or less stood to attention . .
5 One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 .
6 Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses .
7 I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions .
8 Topaz could have expressed some brief regret , or simply shrugged in helplessness , but she did n't .
9 In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins .
10 Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres .
11 I think it 's very good policy , there 's many people policy , who are in our homes , who would give anything to have been able to have stayed in their own homes , or maybe stayed with relatives , but erm , they need the help and care in their homes .
12 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
13 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
14 I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months .
15 At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) .
16 Other bolts raced away into the night or else caroomed off vitrodur surfaces .
17 This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union .
18 During deeper burial , the intergranular and intragranular pores have been partially or completely occluded by anhydrite cement at some localities ( Fig. 16b ) .
19 In contrast , most Whigs and Nonconformists ( who had remained in England ) either kept quiet or actively collaborated with James .
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