Example sentences of "or [vb past] [pron] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |
2 | Did they vanish or did we just forget them ? |
3 | Did they vanish or did we just forget them ? |
4 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
5 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
6 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |
7 | were they always made by the local blacksmiths , or did somebody sometimes construct one , as you said at Out of wood or other material ? |
8 | Was there any more or did she just give you these ? |
9 | Was her decision to play music on a full-time basis thought out — or did she just happen into it ? |
10 | Was she being stupid on purpose , or did she really mean it , Mungo wondered ? |
11 | Was it imagination , or did she really sound colder towards him ? |
12 | Was it that he suddenly realised that his convictions of the past 30 years were false , or did he simply realise that the electorate could not stomach them ? |
13 | Was he committed to the role of protector , or did he just love flying ? |
14 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
15 | Or did he just leave a message to let me know he 'd called ? ’ |
16 | Simon , did Steve stay or did he just leave you there ? |
17 | Or did he just want a special name for her to use ? |
18 | Did you ask him if he 'd te , told his mum or did he just volunteer it ? |
19 | Did they have to ask him to do that or did he just volunteer . |
20 | Did he have any questions about our parish , or did he just listen to what information was being given ? |
21 | Wilko selling players for less than they 're worth ( or did he actually sell Cantona for 1.8m ? ) |
22 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
23 | Or did he really make you believe he had developed some sudden , overwhelming passion for you ? ’ |
24 | Or did it just look kind of … reddish ? |
25 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
26 | ‘ Or did I already tell you ? ’ |
27 | ‘ Are you rejecting me , or did I really make such little impression on you ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Did you get my telephone tapped or did you simply pass on the suggestion that it should be done ? ’ |
29 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
30 | Did you even try to get it out or did you just think oh well ? |