Example sentences of "do or say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raskolnikov is not with us either , but in the novel 's final text he could not have done or said any of the things I have just mentioned . |
| 2 | It was all play-acting , a bluff to get attention , but he never admitted it nor apologized for anything he had done or said . |
| 3 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 4 | Whatever happened , whatever was done or said , he was there in the corner of her mind . |
| 5 | ‘ She has never done or said anything which could help out these pensioners who will be greatly angered by this flamboyant display of wealth . ’ |
| 6 | Judges of the superior courts may not be sued for anything done or said while acting in their judicial capacity even if they act from some malicious or corrupt motive . |
| 7 | But until teatime that day he had not done or said anything clever . |
| 8 | And erm you know , I I 've had on occasion , when there have been a couple of people in our flat , we had n't either done or said anything . |
| 9 | Social Worker : If a 9-year-old was sitting next to you expressing the guilt you have expressed , what would you do or say ? |
| 10 | Nothing he could do or say would move this stalwart protector of civic rectitude from his ordained path . |
| 11 | ( Parent : ‘ Now we know more about what each of us feels , can you think of anything else we could do or say so we do n't get into this disagreement again ? ’ ) |
| 12 | Even in the deep trance state , no patient will do or say anything which he would not do or say when fully aware and awake . |
| 13 | Even in the deep trance state , no patient will do or say anything which he would not do or say when fully aware and awake . |
| 14 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 15 | While language charts are specifically concerned with the way in which a child uses language on a day-to-day basis , language tests are much more concerned with what a child can do or say under optimal conditions . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no knowing what this lunatic will do or say . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There is nothing I can do or say to save you from the wrath of God , or indeed from the wrath of your own father , poor man . ’ |
| 18 | She felt suddenly uncomfortable , unsure of what she should do or say next . |
| 19 | One US company says employees should ask themselves : Would you do or say this in front of your spouse , parents or a colleague of the same sex ? |
| 20 | When you got the light on what did you do or say ? |
| 21 | Do n't do or say anything that might upset him . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't know what to do or say and wished he would do or say something to break the silence . |
| 23 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 24 | The third force is the headteachers , for it is they who have the most decisive influence on what it is or is not safe to do or say in a school . |
| 25 | I did n't know what to do or say . |
| 26 | There was a long silence then and Creggan waited , not sure what to do or say . |
| 27 | He tried to think of something to do or say , but it was too late . |
| 28 | I could tell what people were going to do or say — trivial things like lighting a cigarette or commenting on the rain , important things like committing murder or founding a dynasty — and it disturbed me . |
| 29 | Nenna knew that , if it had n't been disloyal , Richard would have appealed to her to do or say something . |
| 30 | ‘ But you 're not going to do or say anything objectionable , are you ? ’ she said pointedly . |