Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] he [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 Did he behave like a guest or did he take his jacket off and sit in front of the fire like one of the family ? ’
32 Or did he say , ‘ Death is the Emperor 's name ’ ?
33 Or did he ring to cancel ? she asked herself and for some reason , felt uneasy .
34 Was he merely an opportunist who , having conquered these states during the war decided to exploit the situation to Russia 's advantage , or did he have some more grandiose scheme in mind ?
35 Or did he have another woman with him ?
36 Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ?
37 Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ?
38 Or did he believe she would be afraid to be alone in the forest ?
39 Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ?
40 Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ?
41 Léonie asked : or did he put her away somewhere ?
42 Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ?
43 Was it my imagination , or did he look a little like the picture of Lord Carteron ?
44 Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ?
45 Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ?
46 One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ?
47 Ideas are like negative atoms — or does he mean ions ? — rushing around attempting to resolve themselves .
48 Is he referring to the deportations , or does he mean that by making life so miserable in the refugee camps people will leave voluntarily ?
49 Is the Minister satisfied that the 1987 guidelines are still sufficiently detailed and effective , or does he think that they ought now to be updated ?
50 The question is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , does she entice him there or does he want to come ?
51 Is Jamie being collected , or does he want a ride home ? ’
52 Or does he want to gag free speech and have every tabloid newspaper supporting the Tory party ?
53 Is he , what 's he looking for , is he does he wan na relationship or does he want .
54 Ken was in one of his usual moods trying to get his mental computer working — does he ignore them brusquely or does he make one of his faces and willingly sign an autograph ?
55 Does he think that we should employ 5,000 HMIs to carry out inspections , or does he prefer the Labour party 's solution — that only local councils should be allowed to inspect schools ?
56 Or does he panic and get nervous or violent ?
57 Does she entice him or does he appear by chance ?
58 Or does he come forwards to meet you ?
59 When will the Secretary of State accept responsibility for the crisis in education provision in Cambridgeshire , or does he believe that it is just another scare got up by pupils , parents , teachers and Conservative county councillors in that county ?
60 Or does he believe that is a route is put through there then that would increase development pressures in that sector of the district and the greenbelt notation would then run the risk of having to be reviewed .
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