Example sentences of "or [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metaphor does not in itself debase the theatre , and although Shakespeare is using plays and actors to present insincerity or hypocrisy that does not make him or them corrupt : the medium is not the same as the message . |
| 2 | Oh I 've not got a prawn and cocktail or them little tiny fish nanny had . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 4 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 5 | This county is one that for quite a long time has had the policies , I think it 's it 's E it 's number eleven E E eleven is it or I eleven |
| 6 | ‘ You 've obviously NEVER been in love or you d never think of it so vulgarly ! |
| 7 | There was no objective standard for him to measure himself by — there never is in this kind of case , either you have the confidence in yourself , or you don't-all he could do was see himself reflected in her eyes , and it was not a pleasing portrait . |
| 8 | how is he or she possible ? |
| 9 | Further , such displacements of non-sexual fears on to the sexual deviant , be he or she actual , imagined , or constituted in and by the displacement , are made possible because other kinds of transgression — political , religious — are not only loosely associated with the sexual deviant , but ‘ condensed ’ in the very definition of deviance . |
| 10 | That provision will cut a person off from all that he or she most values — family and friends . |
| 11 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Pay back when possible , boychik , and do n't ever tell the missus or we both end up in big trouble . ’ |
| 13 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 14 | A litigant who seeks redress for a public law wrong in a private action must establish , in order to have standing , that the public law wrong has invaded some legal right of his or hers , recognized in private law , or has caused him or her some special damage . |
| 15 | All the traffic looks shiny like it 's just rained , or they all been polished . |
| 16 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 17 | Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back . |
| 18 | I 'm trying to explain to you that there was a different atmosphere about it , the whole situation , I know they were hard times , I know that some people had some really rough times but it did n't show very much , and when I come to think of all my parents ' friends I do n't remember anybody having a wife bashing episode or they all seemed to be very contented with their lot somehow except one , and that was a little bit dicey when I was a little kid , but the man died and the Observer the next week the er obituary notice was put in the paper and underneath they 'd got , with Christ which is far better and my father said and they she could n't have said anything better words |
| 19 | things or they some wo n't go that far . |
| 20 | ‘ No , Zack , we do this my way or it all gets blown to kingdom come … ’ |
| 21 | I told him either that file went up the Hill maybe with the list he 'd recruited or it all went in the shredder . ’ |
| 22 | Or it that last time ? |
| 23 | Certainly not the radiant glow of confidence and success , or it sure as hell would n't have worked for me that Saturday round at Ramillies Drive . |
| 24 | Or it this way round . |
| 25 | Removal of the halteres in Calliphora has little or " no effect or he beat-frequency , amplitude and duration of flight but markedly affects the stability of the flying insect . |