Example sentences of "or [verb] they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alternatively , a woman may have low self-esteem , feeling she can only impress others or make them like her by buying status symbols or the latest fashions . |
| 2 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 3 | We provide rich sensory experiences — wrapping them in soft towels , letting them squelch in mud or helping them identify different tastes or the sound and smells of the countryside . |
| 4 | If you then say , yes I think that 's very good I 'll do as you say you do not repeat no give them your money , or let them handle your money . |
| 5 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 6 | Well do they like or do they stick , stick the thing round , round their arm |
| 7 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 8 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 9 | Or do they suggest that laws are followed because of the fear of being caught and punished — indicating the influence of formal control mechanisms ? |
| 10 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 11 | Do they miss their food , or do they do meals ? |
| 12 | The first basic question to be asked is whether theorists understand the concept of social representations to apply only to particular sons of society , or do they intend the concept to be a universal one ? |
| 13 | Do people pay to go to athletics meetings because it 's ‘ athletics ’ , or do they go to see the individual stars ? |
| 14 | Could they be introduced as token , surface changes or do they necessitate a fundamental reorganization of the way the school operates ? |
| 15 | Do they wait by their car … or do they set out in search of a phone ? |
| 16 | Do signers have a clear idea of the separateness of different sign languages , or do they feel and act as if they are all basically the same thing ? |
| 17 | Do you pick these loaves or do they feel sorry for you when they give them to you ? |
| 18 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 19 | Do , Aristotle asked , all the parts of the embryo come into existence together , or do they appear in succession ? |
| 20 | Is it me or do they whistle a lot ? |
| 21 | Is it me or do they whistle ? |
| 22 | Or do they bide their time and seek to defuse the situation by negotiations via a mediator ? |
| 23 | ‘ Do some animals have higher fitness because they eat better , or do they eat better because they are more fit ? ’ asks Altman . |
| 24 | Or do they rent them off the Council or what ? |
| 25 | Is it , is it a long term thing , do people come for the day , or do they stay with you for months ? |
| 26 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
| 27 | Or do they admit that the Rural Scheme is simply a rate-paid organisation to amuse well-educated people in their years of retirement . |
| 28 | Or do they exhibit a regular alternation , recalling the systematic mosaics seen in some non-mammalian species ? |
| 29 | or do they want money or er |
| 30 | Well I sort of gave them a choice , do they want to nominate who does overtime or do they want to have a cat or do they want to pay , get paid less and they said they 'll get paid less . |