Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] or [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give me sons or I shall die , ’ said Leah to Jacob ( Genesis 30 : 6 ) , expressing the anguish suffered by many people on learning they may not be able to have children . |
| 2 | He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type . |
| 3 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 4 | Something in my story or my way of telling it had evidently touched him . |
| 5 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm the highest paid driver today — it 's not because of my skin colour , my eyes , my hair or anything , it 's because it 's worth paying me the money . |
| 7 | It was n't fair to my mum or my grandma . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never worked with either my sister or my dad — I would n't want to be like certain families in this business , ’ she says , just a touch scornfully . |
| 9 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 10 | If you have any queries do not hesitate to contact my colleague[] or myself . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that there is a piece of legal documentation saying I must not molest or attack my ex-wife or her family is a slur on my name and gives the impression that I am a violent person . |
| 12 | But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar . |
| 13 | It 's me he wants , my look , my outside ; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body . |
| 14 | Teddy rolls his eyes like it is all my fault or something . |
| 15 | I was told to shut my mouth or there would be serious repercussions . ’ |
| 16 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
| 17 | like my car or something . |
| 18 | MICK QUINN has handed Coventry an ultimatum : ‘ Meet my demands or I 'm off . ’ |
| 19 | Whereas the boys Give me the pie Get off my steps or something |
| 20 | No spinning on my knees or anything like that . |
| 21 | ‘ And from now on , ’ he says protectively , ‘ she is our lifetime commitment , whether she is under my roof or somebody else 's . |
| 22 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 23 | You should ta I should take some to my lectures or something . |
| 24 | My feeling towards the pregnancy was one of absolute delight and excitement , but having worked 8 years since leaving school to get where I was it was a major concern to me that my work or my position within the firm should not suffer . |
| 25 | It 's me he wants , my look , my outside ; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body . |
| 26 | It was never a serious relationship , really — I never took him home to meet my parents or anything like that . |
| 27 | Not my parents or my work schedule . |
| 28 | I 've tried to find work on a night time when my parents or my boyfriend could look after the kiddie but there just is n't that much of that kind of work around . |
| 29 | ‘ It got to the stage where it was my marriage or my road racing , ’ admits Thomas , a Guisborough motor bike dealer . |
| 30 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |