Example sentences of "or [pron] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
2 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
3 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
4 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |
5 | Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part . |
6 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
7 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
8 | You either stamp Lucas up his right buttock or you go over the double white lines , or you brake and somebody behind might be too close behind you . |
9 | It is hard to relinquish status and income , both of which are like to fall if you take a step down or sideways or you stop on the career ladder . |
10 | Get off you do n't climb on people 's chairs you sit on them or you play on the floor |
11 | You can either look at people 's jobs because that 's the bulk of the money goes or you look at the charging policy or you look how the building 's run . |
12 | You either keep in the light where you can see , or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you , because you can not see and you think it 's an enemy . ’ |
13 | If yours has n't reached you by the end of July , or you live outside the London area but fancy coming up for the occasion , please phone Pensions Department on freefone 0800 262 072 . |
14 | But it 's going to be extraordinarily difficult to check that a piece of timber that you buy in a market here , or you buy down the road in a timber yard , is in fact , erm does in fact come from a particular forest in Ghana . |
15 | The Tour tries to create opportunities by staging ‘ open-events ’ and allotting places to amateurs invited by the sponsor or who qualify under the relevant handicap rules . |
16 | Of more relevance here are the criticisms of those who argue that Reagan , in reality , fell far short of his declared policy purposes , or who point to the thinness of his legislative record in the remaining three years of his first term . |
17 | no longer confined to persons who speak the King 's English or who come under the direct influence of the great writers ; the continuity of our literary and linguistic heritage is threatened by the far-reaching influence of the half educated … |
18 | The problems noted above are intensified for the management of stock revision programmes ; these are carried out by staff who are either subject specialists or who have in the course of the stock revision acquired a good deal of knowledge about the subject literature — certainly more than the line manager . |
19 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
20 | Although it was getting dusk , he was certain that he had seen someone or something fall from the bridge . |
21 | If there 's a mass exodus or we go down the drain , no one will admire you for decolonisation . ’ |
22 | Or we play in the park all day . |
23 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
24 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
25 | or they stand at the bar . |
26 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |