Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There is no telling how many borrowers and banks are in the same bind , but it is familiar to householders , who have found that they can neither keep up with their mortgages or sell their houses on terms which would not bankrupt them . |
2 | ‘ Do not deal with people who come knocking on your door asking if they can do work or sell you goods or services , unless you are sure what you are getting into , ’ says a Gwynedd Trading Standards leaflet . |
3 | It was yet another of the advantages of belonging to the working class , like always knowing someone who would send her son round to unblock the sink , lay a carpet , get the cat down from the tree , lend you a van for the evening or sell you trainers and tracksuits cheap . |
4 | He 'll steal , beg , pawn or sell his family treasures , anything . |
5 | ‘ Or sell my story to some Hong Kong newspaper ? ’ |
6 | The fingers move gently in and start to tickle it or rub its face and then , without warning , grab it and pick it up . |
7 | Cumulative selection will see to it that animals are well fitted to outrun their predators or outwit their prey , no less than it sees to it that they are well fitted to the prevailing weather conditions . |
8 | It wo n't dip , or wobble , or swing , or scratch its ass when you tell it to keep still . |
9 | Or scratch your crutch with the salad fork . |
10 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
11 | Changing Shape It is often the case that many students grow in height or change their shape in some way during lessons , so it is not a good idea to buy shoes or clothes until nearing the end of the course of lessons . |
12 | Failing to pass through it , or change their strategy and invest the compound from another route , over the fence , as he had done , their plan had stalled at the resistance the settlers were able to muster at that very node . |
13 | However Hahnemann came increasingly to recognize that there were patients whose diseases continually seemed to relapse , or change their form , and such patients could be extremely difficult to treat . |
14 | If , however , the market is able to absorb information about the risks attached to future cash flows from other sources , for example the work of financial analysts , then the role of qualification is marginalised to that of informing unsophisticated investors about risks , the knowledge of which has , unbeknown to them , already been built into the pricing of their securities , but which might possibly cause them to consider whether they should diversify their portfolio or change its composition . |
15 | No other lexicographer may now obtain the text of the entry for update , or change its status , until the borrower has returned the entry , at which point the on- loan flag is reset . |
16 | access or change his address , fax and phone number lists ; |
17 | But I repeated them in Ezra Pound. : Poet as Sculptor , and nothing that has come to my notice since , including an erudite and adulatory article on these cantos by David Gordon in Paideuma 4 ( 1975 ) , has made me want to retract my words or change my mind . |
18 | Inner striving and resentment at what we do has no solution unless we move on to something else , or change our attitude . |
19 | Sex discrimination legislation in itself probably does little to alter the balance between boys ' and girls ' achievement , or bring their curricula nearer together . |
20 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
21 | If you have any questions on this insurance cover please ring Joan Daniels , or bring your queries to the discussion time at our next meeting in March . |
22 | It 's being sent out to the public through the post with no attempt to spare her pride or hide her name . |
23 | Does using the pupil 's mother tongue in teaching a second language help or hinder their progress ? |
24 | Feelings , as we saw in the entry under that heading ( see pages 66 to 69 ) , either help or hinder your behaviour . |
25 | A bad year was a disaster to the small peasant while it might well benefit the large farmers or merchants who could store grain for ten years , ‘ observing this rule so consistently that they would pawn their last jewels or load their lands with mortgages until years of high prices ’ . |
26 | Yet , despite all this , Baxter wrote , ‘ not one that I hear of are fallen off or forsake their uprightness ’ . |
27 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
28 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
29 | If you so much as loosen your seatbelt or drop your ash or pick your nose , then it 's an Alcatraz autopsy with the questions asked later . |
30 | The most dangerous balls swing only enough to beat the bat or graze its edge . |