Example sentences of "or [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 2 | Or you know about all sorts of running problems . |
| 3 | Did either or you know about this ! |
| 4 | You dressed up as Lazarus or Frankenstein , or you went as one of your dead relations . |
| 5 | You take that hussy out of here , or you go through that door and do n't come back . |
| 6 | In day-to-day contact with clients and with the community at larger he or she becomes to some degree locked into the support of individuals and groups that may be antipathetic to the employing agency . |
| 7 | Each one of them knew what he or she meant by true religion , and all of them were sure that the church and the government in England were wrong . |
| 8 | Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 . |
| 9 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 10 | The main concern of Out ( 1964 ) , Such ( 1966 ) , and Between ( 1968 ) is the process whereby the subject constructs his or her identity in and through the language of specialized discourses , and the way in which he or she acts on those discourses to make them ‘ run here and there again' . |
| 11 | The real value of regression therapy is demonstrated when the patient is aware of how he or she acts in certain circumstances but can find no reason for it at all . |
| 12 | Generally , the approach in this initiative is based on the conviction that the primary and most basic interface between the individual and the social world is to be found in the day to day transactions he or she has with other individuals . |
| 13 | ‘ 520b. ( 1 ) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person and if any of the following circumstances exists : ( a ) That other person is under 13 years of age . |
| 14 | 520e. ( 1 ) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree if he or she engages in sexual contact with another person and if either of the following circumstances exists : ( a ) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual contact . |
| 15 | And every human being has the right to fail ; it is what he or she makes of that failure which counts . |
| 16 | Part of the equipment of a good manager is the experience and the bank of memories which he or she carries from one school , one area , one education authority to another . |
| 17 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 18 | If he or she fails in either respect , guilt may result ; and guilt may breed resentment , anger or rejection . |
| 19 | In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake . |
| 20 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 21 | The extent to which a person feels threatened by other people having information about him or her varies from one person to another . |
| 22 | Either they did not come back or they returned by another route . |
| 23 | In network analysis , because G(s) relates to a signal that is a real function of time , the poles and zeros are either real or they occur as complex conjugate pairs . |
| 24 | Yes they did , or they appeared in that light in the newspapers . |
| 25 | The grass is either permanent or it remains for several years as a long ley . |
| 26 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 27 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 28 | Okay and let's say it comes to a third or it comes to two fifteenths . |