Example sentences of "or did [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 ?
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