Example sentences of "or [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 2 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 3 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 4 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 5 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 6 | Of the water which infiltrates into the soil , some is taken up by vegetation and is transpired and the rest either flows down-slope through the soil as interflow or throughflow until it reaches a stream channel , or sinks through the soil to become part of the groundwater . |
| 7 | fair or freckled skin that does n't tan or burns before it tans |
| 8 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 9 | Ms Jackson is not advocating allowing your child to play in a busy road , or watching as it tips a bottle of bleach down its throat . |