Example sentences of "[conj] do [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And all she wants to know is do I use this jug , or do we use that jug .
2 Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ?
3 Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ?
4 Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ?
5 Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ?
6 Before I went , my father asked me : ‘ Are you going to marry Elizabeth , or do you love another woman ?
7 Do you still want to marry me , or do you love another woman ?
8 Do you think at the moment society in Britain , in Scotland takes proper account of that variety of options , or do you think undue stress is put on one er one or other ?
9 Your Area Managers , your Regional Directors , all got plans ? or do you think those people that are running the company just get up on a Monday , oh , let's see what we can do this week .
10 Do you think society er smiles on all forms of love or do you think some kinds of love and loving are , are actually seen as being lesser than others there , there seems to be less sympathetic for er I mean , yes
11 Or do you reckon that shirt ?
12 May I quote you or your company or do you prefer total anonymity ?
13 Are you looking for the interaction where you learn something about the culture from talking to the people or do you want minimal interaction where simply you visit a place , and you stay in your little bubble or ghetto with people of your own tour company , you do everything together and you never come into contact with local people .
14 Will you have the new fashion taps or do you want different bits here ?
15 You sure you 'd like Coke or do you want some orange ?
16 Or do you want some company ?
17 Do you collect stamps which follow particular themes or areas , or do you collect all sorts of subjects ?
18 Or do you feel comfortable making decisions about where you 're investing your money , or would you be happy for somebody else to do it ?
19 or do you call this living room ?
20 Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves .
21 But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ .
22 They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation .
23 They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking .
24 The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them .
25 Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power .
26 Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions .
27 While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) .
28 Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies .
29 This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults .
30 Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma .
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