Example sentences of "or he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day she or he produces nine lbs of hazardous waste and drives an average of 30 miles . |
| 2 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
| 3 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 4 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 5 | As each succeeds she or he passes the cup to the next person until everyone has had their turn . |
| 6 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 7 | She left my father , or he left her , when I was born — or earlier ! |
| 8 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 9 | ‘ Call me if he wakes or he asks for me . ’ |
| 10 | So , whether or not they were armed , or he believed they were armed , he was right to kill them . ’ |
| 11 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 12 | Well I says are you gon na clamp me or he said well we 'll tow you away he said ! |
| 13 | Or he said |
| 14 | And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying . |
| 15 | Individuals have different needs , and these will differ according to their situation and time of life : a young graduate may have a strong need to sense that she or he fits into an organisation , while a middle-aged employee facing redundancy may have future security as a main priority . |
| 16 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a wounded soldier out there , or he thinks there is . |
| 18 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 19 | This will have two effects : either the rider gets angry or he suffers an immediate confidence failure . |
| 20 | Either that or he backs into reverses into a hedge . |
| 21 | He strengthens their integrity or he corrupts them ’ . |
| 22 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 23 | That is , he does nothing , he does nothing at the moment but prepares for action , or he takes action . |
| 24 | Apparently they either found me dad down the cellar or he recovered and come up the cellar like , you know . |
| 25 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 26 | You must smash the egg quickly or else it will hatch out again and hound you until you get the knight again , or he gets you . |
| 27 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 28 | If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do . |
| 29 | The parent should listen quietly to this opinion , preferably with an open mind , trying to see things from the youngster 's point of view and should restate what she or he understands to be the youngster 's argument , so as to be sure of there being no misunderstanding . |
| 30 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |