Example sentences of "or [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 4 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 5 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 6 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 7 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 8 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 9 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 10 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 11 | Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce . |
| 12 | or what have you in the chapel , they 'd go |