Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncertain whether to knock politely on the kitchen door , or just thrust it open and make a dramatic entry , Leonora dumped her bag on the flagstones and pushed wet rat's-tails of hair back from her face . |
| 2 | Why should I require animals to join me in some mutual admiration society or even make them honorary members ? |
| 3 | ‘ She could n't understand or even hear them all that well . |
| 4 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 5 | For instance , we 'll pick up and return your car , or even lend you another Peugeot whilst yours is being serviced . |
| 6 | In order to restrict the circulation of information memoranda , we require recipients of the memorandum to supply us with a letter confirming that they will treat the information contained therein as strictly private and confidential and will not disclose or otherwise make it available to third party . |
| 7 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 8 | How , he asks , ‘ come we by general terms , or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? ’ |