Example sentences of "or we [vb mod] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 2 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 3 | The silences might be sudden , our held breath diffused by Tan beating shapes in the air , or we might be slid into stillness on an outbreath , to be surprised by a scrape of rebec sound , or a curve of pure trill from Fiona Milne 's skilful soprano . |
| 4 | Please , Bernard , let me be converted or we 'll be separated after death and I could n't bear that . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 6 | Every day , we can either be driven by the past — repeating our customary patterns and habits , believing in old limitations — or we can be propelled by our future , by our Dreams , by what we are becoming . |
| 7 | ‘ We can not afford a hope-for-the best cavalier approach or we will be cut to pieces on the break . ’ |
| 8 | Yields of 1:1 can not have been normal — or we should be dealing with a sub-subsistence economy ! |