Example sentences of "or [pers pn] [verb] [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 | However , it is not for me or you to presume upon the gentleman 's intentions . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
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 | ‘ You only need one person to say that he or she benefited from the product to lose the case , ’ she said . |
16 | He believes ‘ That all individuals should be considered to be good , worthwhile and honest until he or she proves to the contrary ’ , It is a sentiment that still today remains his guiding light , and he would add that ‘ All things are possible through God ’ . |
17 | There are the actions he or she contributes to the total social process , and there are the accounts in which action is interpreted , criticized and justified . |
18 | Otherwise a seller 's spouse may be asked to sign the contract to demonstrate that he or she submits to the sale : the spouse will then be estopped from subsequently seeking to frustrate it . |
19 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
20 | and or she went to the door |
21 | Although a spouse may be protected if he or she stays in the home , if the partner goes into permanent residential care , the spouse may want to move into smaller and more appropriate accommodation . |
22 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
23 | But as there must always be some kind of observer-effect in patterns revealed in this analytic way , the position of the observer , and the preconceptions that he or she brings to the act of observing , must be accounted for at every phase of the research . |
24 | Calls made to the BT bureau in Ealing , west London , will be passed on as usual , taking into account the traveller 's schedule and the different time zones he or she encounters along the way . |
25 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
26 | Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer 's drinking . |
27 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
28 | The researcher , unfortunately , has the same problems with testing this hypothesis , despite its greater precision , as he or she has with the grander ones . |
29 | Since normal practice is for a member to be issued with paid-up shares , the member 's liability is limited to the extent that the shares which he or she has in the company are rendered valueless . |
30 | Panorama also employs the concept of ‘ sticky ’ windows ; windows that are dragged around with user wherever he or she moves in the system . |