Example sentences of "or as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony and Matt are both experienced cavers , they have the right equipment , have had a guide to the mines produced by the Northern Association of Caving Clubs , and , more importantly , Matt at least has done this sort of thing before , or as he said , If I remember rightly … " |
| 2 | Just to keep fit , or as he said ‘ to warm up for a day at Sekers ’ he swims about three miles each week . |
| 3 | In this his second publication of poetry , or as he calls it ‘ making the bastards suffer ’ , Bitumen has produced a well rounded collection of spite , venom and malicious slander . |
| 4 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 5 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 6 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 7 | And does he love you as you are , or as he wants you to be ? |
| 8 | Russell , for example , thought that the reduction in ( a ) was possible , by translating all indexicals ( or as he preferred , egocentric Particulars ) into expressions containing this , where the latter referred to a subjective experience . |
| 9 | The designer who assumes all teachers will teach like him , or as he intends , is probably writing private programs . |
| 10 | Of course the role of the trustees is , is , is re- affirmed really by Good who er says that there under the under trust or as he sees it , the trustees should remain the legal owners of the fund and I wonder if we can move on to ownership . |
| 11 | To achieve this , Poulantzas says , it must to some extent be independent of all classes , or as he puts it , it must be relatively autonomous . |
| 12 | Storm damage to the spire has prompted the Rector to ask the organist to choose his notes wisely … or as he puts it , Ding Dong Merrily without the Dong . |
| 13 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
| 14 | Low rejected this , but agreed that a Yugoslav officer would be permitted " to visit all camps in which there were CROATS , or as he called them , Yugoslav Quislings " . |
| 15 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |