Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 2 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 3 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 4 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 5 | But he will not accept them uncritically or become imprisoned within them . |
| 6 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 7 | ‘ Curse this arm , ’ he said , ‘ I ca n't hold you properly or make love to you . |
| 8 | So do you so do you go together , a few of you together or do you go . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , Camille , mind you make Tim bring you home or get a cab … ’ |
| 10 | Driving you home or driving to wherever you want to go to in style on Trent F M , more updates later . |
| 11 | You got any share money hanging over you still or have you paid everything ? |
| 12 | The last I heard you were still in Gloucester with the Empress Matilda , so , whether fitzAlan loves you also or has yet to lose interest in your pretty face and form , he will come for you . |
| 13 | Well have you really or have just made it up ? |
| 14 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 15 | The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen . |
| 16 | On the purl side , this creates a distortion in the stitches , either pulling them sideways or raising them up above the surface of the fabric . |
| 17 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 18 | Would you care to accompany me now or follow in a couple of minutes when you have finished your conversation ? ’ |
| 19 | Now of course there is the there is the spin off as well , that you can get some mileage out of the winning school or the first three , by inviting them here or visiting them and so forth , |
| 20 | The research shows that 85% of those asked felt that the split between LW and FM had either suited them well or had not affected them . |
| 21 | They are based upon our ways of treating animals , whether it be killing them painlessly or protecting an endangered species or preserving a natural habitat . |
| 22 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 23 | She showed me his photograph once , and he was certainly a good-looking chap with his wide smile and curly hair , but she never brought him home or suggested we should meet . |
| 24 | A man may believe that a woman who has consented to him before or consented frequently to others will consent again and that her ‘ no ’ is equally a sham . |
| 25 | The question is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , does she entice him there or does he want to come ? |
| 26 | ‘ Did he take the key away with him then or call back for it that night ? ’ |
| 27 | Do they get them there or does take pack |
| 28 | Tell me — were you just being deliberately perverse with me earlier or had you forgotten you had a nephew called Svend ? ’ |
| 29 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 30 | He does n't take it personally or make excuses when he gets his priorities wrong and other people point it out . |