Example sentences of "[noun sg] read or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I went into my bedroom to read or do homework , I 'd still have her sitting there on my huge falconer 's glove , fidgeting and glaring at me . |
| 2 | His message was that every Christian had the right to read or hear the word of God in his own language , and was capable of redemption only through belief in that word , rather than by any good works that he or she might do . |
| 3 | It had produced a massive oxygen lack in the left side of the brain , leaving Stanley with a right-sided hemiplegia , complete loss of speech and understanding of other people 's words , and a total inability to read or write . |
| 4 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 5 | During the flight try to sleep if it is night time at your destination and , when it is daytime there , try to stay awake — find somebody to talk to , a book to read or watch the in-flight movie . |
| 6 | Transferring to an alternative medium requires new data formats yet to be standardised and dependence on a new generation of hardware to read or download stored information . |