Example sentences of "or [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 2 | with my new man or my new freedom . |
| 3 | I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already . |
| 4 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
| 5 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 6 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 7 | Not one leaf is to go out of the garden until either I or my chief taster gives the order . " |
| 8 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 9 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
| 10 | Serve dessert wines with a slice of Christmas cake , pudding , or my two desserts . |
| 11 | Does it help me to make sense of the atmosphere in my school , or my own feelings ? |
| 12 | Or my own boy . |
| 13 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |
| 14 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 15 | There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones . |
| 16 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
| 17 | That forthright common sense does not come from the Conservative Newsline ; nor is it a quote from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State or my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , Southgate ( Mr. Portillo ) . |
| 18 | In the various judgments that have been made in the High Court by Mr. Justice Brown , no contempt was found against officials or my hon. Friend for what is called phase 1 and phase 2 . |
| 19 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |
| 20 | The only occasions on which we got fleeting moments of commitment were ones where I or my British colleagues were present and involved . |
| 21 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 22 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
| 23 | My brother-in-law is either my bond friend or my mortal foe . |
| 24 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 25 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 26 | Away from home , perhaps for the first time , intellectually challenged , in financial difficulty and in need of support , a student could find her or himself easy prey for a potentially abusing lecturer . |
| 27 | Then , at least seven days before the day fixed for hearing , the plaintiff is to file one copy of a paginated and indexed bundle ( with earliest date on top ) comprising the documents on which either party intends to rely , or which either party wishes to have before the court . |
| 28 | To do this in the College study , each activity drawn out from the model was itemised , and a judgment made as to who , or which functional group , might be responsible for carrying out the task if it existed . |
| 29 | For example , no mention has been made of which variable to base branching on , or which active node to develop next . |
| 30 | Often it tells us about their background or which social group they identify with . |