Example sentences of "[adv] or [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 2 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 3 | If you would like to know more about this ‘ Financial Health Check ’ write to me at the address below or call me on 0204 31627 . |
| 4 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 5 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 6 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 7 | Shall I phone through or had I better write ? " |
| 8 | ‘ He 's a good boy , he 's done nothing , they 've taken him away , I know he always comes home or sends me word if he 's going to be kept . ’ |
| 9 | Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’ |
| 10 | Now he 'll come up with all sorts of bright ideas like tying me up or pumping me full of tranquillizers for my own safety . |
| 11 | Did you take that out or did I ? |
| 12 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 13 | The question is therefore asked with an implication attached to it of ‘ do I have to start getting really worried now or do I have time to adjust to this bad news ? ’ |
| 14 | You are forced to ask : Do I stop here or do I go on through ? |
| 15 | ‘ You 've no right to barge in here or treat me like this . |
| 16 | I can organise my time rather than panicking ‘ Have I left this here or have I left that there ? ’ ’ |
| 17 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 18 | Every time I ran past where he was standing he hit me again or tripped me up , sprawling me in the dirt . |
| 19 | And again or do I put A |
| 20 | Now do you come quietly or do I use force ? ’ |