Example sentences of "[vb base] or [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
| 2 | But I never eat or drink too much because it becomes bad for you . ’ |
| 3 | You will not have to record every tiny thing you eat or work out calories but it is important that each day you weigh yourself if you possibly can . |
| 4 | Insect damage is usually fairly evident — the physical damage can be seen , the creatures themselves can be seen , and even those that hide or run away cause tell-tale signs that can be noticed and recognized . |
| 5 | When you repress or bottle up so much anger , you simultaneously diminish other feelings , including love and affection . |
| 6 | A 1992 survey revealed that 39% of large companies either fear or have already experienced litigation due to lost or missing records . |
| 7 | Lay or roll back the insulation using a brush to push the material into the angle of the rafter ventilator to avoid any cold spots |
| 8 | Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner . |
| 9 | Now sit or lie comfortably as before . |
| 10 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 11 | If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs . |
| 12 | And by last night , with the pound still falling below its permitted floor within the ERM , Mr Lamont was faced with two options — devalue or get out of Euro system . |
| 13 | For my father would keep the best for himself , to train and breed , and sell or give away the remainder . |
| 14 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 15 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 16 | When products and processes are so protean , companies grow or decline not with the market for some specific good , but with the creative and adaptive capacity of their workers . |
| 17 | In a way , the planetary message is : grow or get out . |
| 18 | Test or try out the beds on display |
| 19 | Parental involvement in decision-making is often restricted to identifying those aspects of the child 's behaviour that fit or do not fit with the views of the professionals . |
| 20 | Sometimes new health care technologies produce savings on the ones they replace or allow more cost-effective patterns of care . |
| 21 | We understand why people do n't care for reporting , and it 's often because they 'd rather get on and drill or explore or sort out problems . |
| 22 | The thing is , do I do what I want or give in to him ? |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I hate to damage your enormous ego , but the last thing I want or need right now is any sort of involvement , as you put it , with a man . |
| 24 | If you are n't given a list by the firm , make your own priorities list of all the things you want or do n't want cleaned |
| 25 | ‘ Touch or kiss gently ’ is much better than ‘ Do n't hurt him ’ . |
| 26 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 27 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 28 | When such MPs die or step down the resulting by-election often provides big shock waves . |
| 29 | Outcidence is the opposite of incidence , and primarily consists of those users who stop taking heroin , but also includes a small proportion of users who die or move away from the area of study . |
| 30 | The reformer , like a US president with a recalcitrant supreme court , can secure a majority in his favour only as they retire , die or move on to better things . |