Example sentences of "or do [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please continue a positive attitude to gay issues , or do n't do it at all . |
| 2 | Either mean it , or do n't do it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Confidentiality ’ may mean my right ( or wish ) that you do not pass on what I have told you ( or do n't identify me as the informant ) , or it may mean my wish ( or right ) that you do not pass on information about me , or , with ‘ professional ’ prefixed , it may mean that our group will support each other by saying nothing about each other 's judgements , competencies or foibles . |
| 4 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 5 | But erm , sometimes they have n't covered it completely , or do n't understand it , they 've just ticked it , and signed it to say that they know what they 're doing . |
| 6 | Most people just listen to weather forecasts and either believe them or do n't believe them and certainly get cross with people like yourselves if it |
| 7 | Christopher will you drink that or do n't wipe it on the floor ! |
| 8 | While most middle-class women say they dislike housework and most working-class women say they like or do n't mind it , there are some in each class group who deviate from this pattern . |
| 9 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
| 10 | or did n't think they were |
| 11 | But if he had no bill and or did n't pick it up , you 'd tell the proprietor that he must take his own proceedings — he 's swindled you out of the price of a meal and it 's a civil action . |
| 12 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 13 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 14 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
| 15 | McCallum assumes that the government decides its monetary and fiscal policies for period t at the end of period t - 1 and can not or does not change them in period t . |
| 16 | If the handler tries simply to grasp the scruff or does not hold it tight behind the ears he is liable to be bitten . |
| 17 | The father , for reasons put forward by Miss McCreath connected with his own situation and his wish to as it were be forgiven for his past behaviour , and in the hopes of showing that he can in the future notwithstanding his past behaviour be contemplated as somebody to play a röle in the life of his children , supports the making of an interim care order or does not oppose it because he acknowledges that there should be supervision by the plaintiffs . |