Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 2 | It is a prosperous-looking place , either because there is wine money here , made from the vineyards of Irouléguy , or because well-off Basques have retired to this very calm and convenient valley , to renovate the old houses or build themselves shiny new ones , reminiscent but hardly imitative of the lovely old style of Basque domestic architecture . |
| 3 | It really is quite simple , but there are a few basic rules you must adhere to if you do n't want to flood the canal system or find yourself adrift in the middle of the night ! |
| 4 | ‘ Either take Fatima back or find yourself another woman . ’ |
| 5 | Unix users with NFS would have to change over to the unfamiliar — and untried — DCE or find themselves unable to integrate with NT easily . |
| 6 | The memory of those sensitive hands , the clean square nails , the single white streak in his hair , would fill her mind with agony , and she would go on reading her book without taking in a word , or find herself deaf to the fact that the tape she was playing had long since finished . |