Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you suggest anything I can do without making him feel unhappy or threatened ? |
| 2 | He also had unusually heavy , drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister , benevolent or supercilious . |
| 3 | Use a large notebook or a pad of lined paper and teach him to leave two or three lines blank between the lines of text for a word-for-word gloss . |
| 4 | Did they have to ask him to do that or did he just volunteer . |
| 5 | Another welcome gain is that if a husband 's income is too low for him to use all or part of the married couple 's allowance , he can request that the unused part be transferred to his wife — thus reducing his wife 's tax bill . |
| 6 | I do n't want him to get excited or upset . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I never once saw him get upset or angry ’ , said Ken Bradshaw , one of his circle of disciples . |
| 8 | And of course he was beset by orders and suggestions from other collectors : William Ogilby advised him to collect 6 or 8 specimens of every species , particularly the great red woolly kangaroo , which were in great demand not only in England but on the Continent as well ; Jardine asked for seeds as well as numerous other specified ‘ things in spirits ’ ; Thomas Campbell Eyton wanted as many petrels as Gould could capture for a monograph on the Procellaridae . |
| 9 | Robert Layton has spent five months preparing the British , French , Spanish and Portugese paperwork that will allow him to make two or three landings a day as he hops across Europe in a plane that can carry just ten gallons of fuel . |
| 10 | He made one or two experiments on his own . |
| 11 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 12 | And he made one or two of the garage men you know really the the you could see one or two were taken aback by the things he were saying , and it was er very very professionally put over . |
| 13 | And McAllister added : ‘ He played a major part in Stuttgart , where he made three or four great saves . |
| 14 | He passed one or two cool and entirely acceptable compliments on her appearance , and contrived to make her feel a charming and desirable woman without in any way ruffling her sensibilities by an excess of ardour . |
| 15 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 16 | My brother was born in Canada so of course he became Canadian or a Blue Noser as they are called . |
| 17 | She was n't sure she could cope if he became sentimental or tried to pry into her past . |
| 18 | He got five or seven years in gaol . |
| 19 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 20 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 21 | Unless otherwise instructed , the proxy may vote as he thinks fit or abstain from voting . |
| 22 | Unless otherwise instructed , the proxy may vote as he thinks fit or abstain from voting . |
| 23 | He has always feared that he looks embarrassed or patronizing on these occasions . |
| 24 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 25 | Ian know he owes that or what ? |
| 26 | ‘ But he has one or two family groups lined up . |
| 27 | He has two or three ear infections a month and sometimes pus pours from his ears for up to two days in a row . |
| 28 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 29 | We had an officer , he was and price biscuit because Lieutenant , and he has two or three horses and he use to go hunting . |
| 30 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |