Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 2 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 3 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 4 | You will probably find that much of what they offer is excellent , but that something is missing ; certain aspects of movement are neglected — it is thought necessary to know about them or try to communicate them through teaching . |
| 5 | The next best thing to climbing mountains is reading about them or attending slides-theatres or watching films . |
| 6 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 7 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 8 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 9 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 10 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 11 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 12 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 13 | as opposed to the , but , but some cupboard doors are diamond pattern , Muffin will you be quiet have we any more bones cooked for them or have they had them all ? |
| 14 | Levi defines long-firm fraud as referring to businesses which order substantial quantities of goods on credit at a time when the owners of the business either intend not to pay for them or suspect that they will not be able to pay for them . |
| 15 | Items such as sweets and toys are often displayed at a low level — so that children will see them and either ask for them or buy them . |
| 16 | Ask friends what 's worked for them or buy a paperback that offers a realistic diet and know you can keep to . |
| 17 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 18 | effect so erm whether that means actually working directly for them or working for a company who specializes in erm the management of historic erm buildings or environments or areas . |
| 19 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 20 | So far , however , the BIS Clearinghouses Committee has simply reported their functions and activities , without formalizing any co-operation between them or attempting to co-ordinate them . |
| 21 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 23 | Erm did n't say you 'll go back and work out a plan of attack for me or did you ? |
| 24 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 25 | Saying positive things about ourselves or having positive things said to us actually produces a chemical response in our brains . |
| 26 | He may have left The Bar accompanied , but you never saw him following anyone , gazing after someone or persuading them to come home with him . |
| 27 | ‘ Has n't anybody been looking after you or bringing you food ? ’ |
| 28 | There was also an increased emphasis on productivity and better educational standards , which drew attention to the existence of people who could not look after themselves or sustain a normal education . |
| 29 | If you 're in trouble , for example , do you try to sort it out yourself or get everyone else involved ? |
| 30 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |