Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also much unnecessary hardship and fear and pain caused by man to animals in the way we breed them , market them , or eventually kill them in an abattoir . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | if you want to comment on any of those while we 're going through , or perhaps cross them off your list . |
| 4 | If you listen to a text enough times you will come to a point where you more or less know it by heart , and the correct tunes will be sort of " ingrained " in your ind to such an extent that you will yourself react if you would say the text with the wrong intonation . |
| 5 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 6 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 7 | Whether the farm worker preferred to defer to the authority of his ‘ betters ’ , or fight against it , or merely accept it as a fact of life and accommodate to it as best he could , he recognized that there was a clear , qualitative difference between this relationship and that with his fellow workers . |
| 8 | Or just put it onto your poppadom like that . |
| 9 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 10 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
| 11 | Or just throw it at the neighbours , thought Henry grimly , as he tipped the edenwort in next to the water-chestnuts and the giant yam . |
| 12 | Keegan 's not wrong to sell because you either do one of two things with this type of striker , build a side around him or just sit him on the bench for use in emergencies . |
| 13 | Or just eat them on their own ? |
| 14 | Now you 're gon na want a pin , these are rather small pins , I recommend that peop people who have got large hands try and fit their first aid kit out with large pins , they 're much easier to handle , but firstly they do not put pins in their mouths for obvious reasons , either , either have it on the table open ready or just pop it in the front of shirt while you do this bit , okay ? |
| 15 | or still do them in the evening ? |
| 16 | Only those documents which clearly state that the contract is to be entered into upon the terms and conditions of the sender , and either have those terms and conditions printed on them , or clearly incorporate them by reference , will rank as counter-offers . |
| 17 | Firms which reduce emissions by amounts exceeding the reductions required by the authorities under the bubble or offset policies can ‘ bank ’ emission reduction credits and either use them to expand their own plant later or openly trade them with other companies . |
| 18 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 19 | It would therefore seem to make a lot of sense to construct edifices that would allow you to observe the Sun 's behaviour because , as a god , he might angrily starve you or beneficently reward you with plenty . |
| 20 | We do not tie the horse , blindfold it , or forcefully restrain it in any way . |
| 21 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 22 | Shallow or superficial learning — like learning a name , address and telephone number that you promptly forget unless you write them down or consciously commit them to memory or use them habitually . |
| 23 | Women do often partially reject or filter knowledge , or even use it to their own advantage . |
| 24 | Poor , insecure little Caroline , clinging rigidly to what she knows , terrified of the unknown , terrified to trust people in case they let her down , hurt her feelings , or even endanger her in some way … ? ’ |
| 25 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 26 | If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems . |
| 27 | I do n't see how that you can possible reduce the number of deaths within the county , or even maintain it at the same level . |
| 28 | You can listen to the radio while you 're working or even take them on holiday , though DO N'T try to punch cards in a coach , train or plane . |
| 29 | You can easily carry your BOND Sweater Machine from room to room or even take it on holiday with you . |
| 30 | With some , it 's along the lines of ‘ if you want the latest version , go out and buy it ! ’ , with others , it 's ‘ if you 're a registered user of the product , you can upgrade to the latest release for the cost of the disks , or even download it from our Bulletin Board System . |