Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] i [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do I mean that ? |
| 2 | Or do I mean all the same technique ? |
| 3 | Or do I mean Bunyanesque ? |
| 4 | Or do I have that wrong as well ? ’ |
| 5 | Or did I get seventy ? |
| 6 | Or did I get that wrong , too ? ’ |
| 7 | Unfortunately we have no vacancies at present nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 8 | Unfortunately we have no trainee vacancies at present , nor do I anticipate any in the near future . |
| 9 | I 'm not qualified to judge whether the grief his mother felt on the death of his elder brother had an adverse effect on Mr Barrie 's emotional development , nor do I care one way or the other . |
| 10 | Nor do I think this matters because , since the decision of [ the House of Lords ] in Hedley Byrne & Co v Heller & Partners Ltd [ 1964 ] AC 465 , it is clear that quite apart from any contractual obligation , the respondents must have owed a duty to [ both shareholders ] to use reasonable skill and care in making their valuation . |
| 11 | I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter , nor do I shirk any responsibility for the actions taken by my officials or for the way in which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary handled the case . |
| 12 | Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz . |
| 13 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 14 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 15 | ‘ Nor do I need such smugness from an upstart like you . |
| 16 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 17 | Hunter ended his description with a comment on Maria and a hint as to his charges to Martin Van Butchell : ‘ This body … yet promises exceedingly well , nor do I see any great improvement to be made ; a number of experiments must be made before I embalm any other body , such as finding the exact proportion of moisture Paris Plaister will take up etc. but at present I know of no other Process at all useful and considering the trouble you must have during all these Processes now laid down , you ought not to undertake it under 100 Guineas . ’ |
| 18 | Nor do I see any support in earlier judgments which have been cited to us relating to the predecessors of section 236 or to comparable sections for such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | I do not play golf , nor do I have any particular interest in the sport , so there was nothing I could teach Peter in the practical sense . |
| 20 | Nor did I feel able to ask for one . |
| 21 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 22 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 23 | Nor did I deplore English accents ; indeed that would be rather silly on the part of a professional linguist . |
| 24 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
| 25 | Nor did I notice this fact until we were well on our way home . ’ |
| 26 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 27 | To me , that record was like , ‘ Okay , I 'm in this band , we 've sold thirty million records or whatever it was , but do I deserve this success ? ’ |
| 28 | But do I believe that ? |