Example sentences of "or did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of taxis that never arrived , or did arrive |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 6 | The authority refuses or did refuse to consider me as a supply teacher in nay capacity until six months had passed . |
| 7 | And while many Victorian villas and large , early twentieth-century suburban houses have , or did have , extensive gardens with fountains and follies , they have been surprisingly little studied . |
| 8 | Bid array also has an odd local cult , or did have , for I am not sure that it is still practised , in the worship of a headless and anonymous saint in a cave nearby . |
| 9 | OK he tackles hard , has a fierce shot ( or did have ) but he just has n't got it anymore . |
| 10 | My dad ha , or did have . |
| 11 | If you will need to relate what someone said or did take time beforehand to remember it clearly and note it down . |
| 12 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |
| 13 | Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one ? |
| 14 | No uniform pattern could or did emerge , and by the 1980s the diversity had grown . |
| 15 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |