Example sentences of "[conj] does [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening
2 Or does somebody else get the credit f or does the credit apply equally because everybody deals with their own at home ?
3 ‘ Does she ask who it is first or does she just use it as soon as she hears a man 's voice ? ’
4 Or does she still go ?
5 But can she allow herself to get in touch with that needy infant inside her adult self , or does she always have to be the carer , the non-greedy adult , leaving Bob Halton to express all the emotional greed for them both ?
6 I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ?
7 Is it , therefore , a great finishing hole or does it simply feed off the pressure of the Masters ?
8 Or does it simply train them to become expert exercise-doers in the safety of the home or the classroom ?
9 Or does it simply increase women 's fear of crime ?
10 Is there any local investment in the project , or does it just involve you and the builders ? ’
11 ‘ Did you learn to talk so nice in charm school , or does it just come naturally ? ’
12 Or does it just indicate the different ways in which national political shifts are experienced locally ?
13 Is it just to do with production quality control or does it also embrace marketing , accounting and other functions ?
14 Or does it also stumble before this hurdle ?
15 ring a bell or does it actually pour out of a speaker what comes out of a speaker ?
16 Is it only a paper tiger , or does it really have teeth ?
17 But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it .
18 Does it really wish to dissolve itself into a European federation , as many of its intellectuals claim , or does it still have specifically Greek aims to pursue in the Balkans and the Middle East ?
19 Does the author use only statements ( declarative sentences ) , or does he also use questions , commands , exclamations , or minor sentence types ( such as sentences with no verb ) ?
20 Is he there to check out the band or does he just want to feel your bottom while they 're on ?
21 Is he there to check out the band or does he just want to feel your bottom while they 're on ?
22 Is Wilko trying to prove a point or does he just want rid of Rocky ? ? ?
23 Or does he just watch warily from the back of the box , or even ignore you ?
24 Or does he just switch off and ignore you ?
25 Does he have a bank for his business or does he just use cash ? ’
26 Is he making subtle statements about the mutable nature of fashion , or does he just have crap taste in togs ?
27 ‘ Are you saying he shuts his eyes when confronted by a woman , or does he just turn away ? ’
28 Or does he still pretend he objects to being called Bluebeard ? ’
29 Sight — is it just me , or does anyone else think these 3-D Freescape thingies just do n't work on 8-bit computers ?
30 Nor does he now believe in an inevitable outcome : ‘ He that hath the worst cause may sometimes have the best success . ’
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