Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no evidence that they either intended or effected systematic and long-term destruction . |
| 2 | The Guild members were not asked about birth control in the questionnaire that elicited these letters , so it is all the more surprising that twenty women volunteered the information that they either used or approved of contraception . |
| 3 | ‘ He threw you in and you either sank or swam . ’ |
| 4 | Her limbs seemed lifeless , and she never spoke or uttered a sound . |
| 5 | When asked by the judge if she ever drank or got aggressive . |
| 6 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 7 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 8 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 9 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |