Example sentences of "or [vb infin] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time one person whispered in the ear of another to make or break a third person 's reputation , then public relations was born . |
| 2 | ‘ Consumers do not confuse the availability of good physical facilities with good quality ; such facilities may tempt a consumer to choose a particular shop , but it is the quality of the staff which will determine whether the consumer will buy or return a second time . ’ |
| 3 | Although desfoutre is a perfectly proper grammatical construction , it is , of course , in real-world terms impossible to be " unfucked " , except perhaps in the mind of a naive woman who imagines that a second foutre can annul or return the first … or does she ? |
| 4 | The court may allow a defendant to withdraw or amend a first admission at any time on such terms as may be just ( Ord 9 , r 2(4) ) . |
| 5 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 6 | I expect her to say more , to preach or pose a second question , but she does n't . |
| 7 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 8 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |