Example sentences of "or [verb] do " in BNC.

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1 Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods .
2 The mixture will leave young cricket-lovers wondering whether they want to ascend to the spotlight or make do safely with their humdrum jobs .
3 But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help .
4 Or did do mind you I I would n't think it now not for younger folk that 's not the case but for the older folk it very much worse .
5 Since the tense markers in JC are not verbs , but invariant particles , there are no syntactic grounds for identifying British English did ( the past tense of do ) with Creole did ( a past tense marker , but not the past tense of do , which would be en , bin or did do ) .
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