Example sentences of "nor [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 2 | Temple had neither converted him , nor given him his vocation . |
| 3 | This neither precludes his fishing nor guarantees it . |
| 4 | This is not surprising ; and we should not fall into the obvious trap of righteous indignation after the event nor judge them too harshly . |
| 5 | Recently launched titles — Today , the Independent and the News-on-Sunday — neither confirm the historical trend nor disprove it . |
| 6 | He neither scorned it nor passed it off as ludicrous fiction as many policemen would and do about the way they are portrayed on screen . |
| 7 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 8 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 9 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 10 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 11 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 12 | Few there had any faith in him , nor expected him actively to aid them . |
| 13 | Nor advocate it , indeed . ’ |
| 14 | Lots of people neither like nor trust him ; they still think of him as ‘ Slick Willie ’ . |
| 15 | But the words on the page did n't have the power to blot out the crack of hunting guns she was beginning to hear again inside her head , nor make her forget the sight of the blood trails on the hot plain . |
| 16 | With an effort she said , ‘ Listen , Frank , and you can pass this on if you want to : I 've not given Sleet to Mr Kennedy , nor sold it to him . |
| 17 | Abbot Ælfric stressed Christ 's humility , describing in his homily The Exaltation of the Holy Cross how an angel reminded the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius that he " would not encircle his head with a golden crown , but with one of thorns " , and that before the crucifixion " he was not clothed in purple , nor adorned with a royal crown , nor rode he … upon a horse but upon the back of an ass " . |
| 18 | I neither desire nor expect it . |
| 19 | Shortly , Colinetta claims that she herself has never been envious nor has she spread scandal , though evidently others behave in this way . |
| 20 | Nor has she regretted the move : the day-to-day involvement is much more enjoyable than the ‘ passive , almost backward-looking role in audit ’ . |
| 21 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 22 | The Marchioness has n't yet been able to see her baby son George , nor has she had a visit from her estranged husband , Jamie Blandford , currently banned by the High Court from seeing her . |
| 23 | He has not sacrificed his credibility by undue deference to Peking , nor has he courted prestige within the British establishment . |
| 24 | He is not originally a judge , nor has he a court . |
| 25 | Nor has he been idle since 1990 , when he was apparently left without a City role after relinquishing executive control of money-brokers R P Martin , and the closure of his Quadrex Securities . |
| 26 | Nor has he ever changed . |
| 27 | Nor has he wasted his spare time in the time with Pompey . |
| 28 | Mr Cross has not told us what he did with Hiatt 's stock of leg irons when their export was banned in 1984 , nor has he told us about Hiatt 's attempts to export ‘ extended ’ cuffs which the government has now included in the ban . |
| 29 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 30 | Derrida has not been concerned to formulate a new philosophy of history ; nor has he attempted to specify new methodologies in the manner of Foucault . |