Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [det] [noun sg] " 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 students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ?
4 Before I went , my father asked me : ‘ Are you going to marry Elizabeth , or do you love another woman ?
5 Do you still want to marry me , or do you love another woman ?
6 Or do you reckon that shirt ?
7 You sure you 'd like Coke or do you want some orange ?
8 Or do you want some company ?
9 or do you call this living room ?
10 Or did he have another woman with him ?
11 Or did it make any difference either way ?
12 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
13 Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ?
14 What does this really mean , and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance ?
15 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 .
16 The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 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 .
20 Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma .
21 They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit .
22 Bhutto herself dismissed them as " kangaroo courts " and told journalists on Aug. 26 that " we do not accept any tribunal nor do we have any intention to appear before it " .
23 Nor do we see any reason why a wife who is not separated from her husband , even a wife who is still to be regarded as cohabiting with her husband , should lack this protection of the criminal law .
24 I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter , nor do I shirk any responsibility for the actions taken by my officials or for the way in which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary handled the case .
25 Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz .
26 Nor do I need such smugness from an upstart like you .
27 Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’
28 Nor do I see any support in earlier judgments which have been cited to us relating to the predecessors of section 236 or to comparable sections for such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’
29 Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales .
30 Nor did we make much fuss over presents .
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