Example sentences of "or [verb] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | The principal is required to give his clerk specified minimum training ( or to enable him to receive it from others ) . |
| 3 | These er er orders today are n't based on a thorough inquiry er into how audits on the the financial institutions are conducted , what 's wrong with them , what goes wrong , not even a thorough er inquiry into what happened in the B C C I case , er we ca n't legislate , we ca n't legi or regulate I put it without er er er a thorough inquiry and yet here we have er orders brought in er without inquiry . |
| 4 | Or has he had it " n good authority " that it is true ? |
| 5 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 6 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 7 | If the new resolution is less than the original , you can show part of the original at full resolution , and pan it around if appropriate , or compress it to make it all visible . |
| 8 | trying to establish whether the young person is ‘ really gay ’ , or asking them to prove it ; |
| 9 | I suddenly understood , or thought I understood it all . |
| 10 | Erm , but I wanted some cash , so what I did in the end was walked round Asda remembered it , or thought I remembered it , came back out put the erm card back in and the terminal came up erm it 's ok . |
| 11 | Or do we dump it ? |
| 12 | And do we , do we find some partners or do we do it just the two of us ? |
| 13 | Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion . |
| 14 | Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ? |
| 15 | ‘ Laverne , do ya wan na bring your bicycle in from the rain , or do ya wann it to rust to the spot like everything else round here ? ’ |
| 16 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 17 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 18 | But is it flattering , or do you think it 's silly ? |
| 19 | Or do you think it is ? ’ |
| 20 | DID Bill & Ted ‘ s Excellent Adventure make you laugh enough to be Comedy Video or do you think it should be Blackadder 's Christmas Carol ? |
| 21 | Do you think there 's a prejudice against women playing football or do you think it 's easy fo for women to play football ? |
| 22 | Now do you still feel that it is too much for you to take all that lot in in one go , or do you think it 's all it 's it 's it 's gu it 's |
| 23 | ‘ Or do you think it 's absolutely endemic in man ? ’ |
| 24 | No , it 's called a cork , cork , you feel it Victoria and tell me what do you think , you think that 's gon na sink or do you think it 's gon na float ? |
| 25 | To what extent do you think that the creation of all these , as it were , structures on Shakespeare is a useful exercise , or do you think it 's a little bit like sort of medieval philosophy and taking a little a long , long way ? |
| 26 | on Shakespeare is a useful exercise , or do you think it 's a little bit like sort of mediaeval philosophy in , in taking a little a , a long , long way ? |
| 27 | ‘ Do you know that , or do you presume it ? ’ |
| 28 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
| 29 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 30 | Or do you want it cleared up beforehand ? |