Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] i [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 3 | Or do I drag you out ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 5 | Or do I kill your husband now ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ W-was there a car crash — or did I dream it ? ’ she asked softly . |
| 7 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 8 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 9 | Or did I post it ? |
| 10 | Or did I put it in this one ? |
| 11 | Or did I buy them as odd presents for people who might like them ? |
| 12 | Nor do I expect you to believe me because my bearing is sincere and my words plausible . |
| 13 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 14 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want you to put on an artificial accent , ’ Mother Francis had warned , ‘ nor do I want you sticking out your little finger when you 're drinking tea . ’ |
| 16 | Nor do I think they will be able to charge anything like the premium they used to ; in fact , it 's debatable whether they 'll be able to charge a premium at all . ’ |
| 17 | Nor do I think we are , as a rule , justified as we may be with adults in using a child 's attraction to the worker to advance casework . |
| 18 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 19 | I can not attend the Action Group 's first meeting , nor do I think I will be able to do this regularly in any case . |
| 20 | She had little option but to do so , nor do I think she was particularly amused . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Nor do I think there is any point making churches into multi-purpose buildings . |
| 22 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 23 | Nor do I think he had the right to frighten me while driving here . |
| 24 | Nor do I consider your sneers ( a reference to Theo 's occasional sarcasm ) aimed expressly at me … . |
| 25 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 26 | She did not ask my name , nor did I offer it . |
| 27 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 28 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 29 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 30 | Nor did I meet you here to be angry with you , I hope I have not so offended you that you refuse to officiate and give us your instructions here tomorrow |