Example sentences of "or do [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 2 | Yeah , its just er I feel you know its , its a waste of your life , you know sitting , I have to drive through the , the necessity to work every day , its an hour of my day spent just behind a wheel when I could be in the train , you know reading or doing something more productive |
| 3 | The fee for permission — not writing , or speaking , or doing anything mildly useful — was £10,000 , £2,000 a word , a rate for the job that , I can now reveal , not even the NSS matches . |
| 4 | He longed for her to either finish her job and go back to Germany , or do something blatantly treacherous so he would have an excuse to get rid of her . |
| 5 | Every time he buys me something I think it is proof that he 's not going to kill me or do anything else unpleasant . |
| 6 | In the meantime one studies them as landscapes , so to speak , simply to heighten one 's pleasure in sight-seeing , to get behind the superficial appearances , to uncover the layers of the palimpsest and to see , for example , a piece of the tenth century in the way a street makes an abrupt turn or does something else unexpected . |