Example sentences of "[pron] nor [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 2 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
| 4 | Right ‘ Thou standest on the threshold of days which are unknown , Thou standest at the gate where your path 's unmapped and shown , But God himself is with thee , thy Saviour keep a friend , And he will not forsake thee nor leave thee 'till the end , Thou pausest on the threshold , enfolded lies a year , But with God 's arms beneath thee , there is no cause to fear . |
| 5 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 6 | There is no easy answer , for the Spirit blows where he wills , and man can neither prescribe to him nor control him . |
| 7 | Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him . |
| 8 | His host had darted across the room presumably to bring him a drink and as he looked around he saw other doors , other lights — so this spectacle which did not shock him nor dismay him but which he did not wish to be a part of , might not be the only play . |
| 9 | That he neither sees it nor says it . |
| 10 | He neither scorned it nor passed it off as ludicrous fiction as many policemen would and do about the way they are portrayed on screen . |
| 11 | When the spirit parted from the body it found no one asking anything of it nor giving it any directions . ) |
| 12 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's a good guess , ’ she said , neither denying it nor confirming it . |
| 14 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |