Example sentences of "[pron] or [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mouth jams open , and she says that if I really am going , then either she comes with me or she is staying here to pack . |
| 2 | I 've never really been , like , single single cos I 'm always sort of like , not actually going out with somebody but I 'm always , I 've always got someone who sort of fancies me or I 'm flirting with . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone answer me or I 'm gon na lose my rag . ’ |
| 4 | Since almost all the basic sports medicine provision within governing bodies of sport is provided by doctors who are either paid nothing or who are given a small honorarium , the prospect of maintaining separate medical defence cover for their voluntary activities may place their valuable contribution to sport in jeopardy . |
| 5 | And now a point we have now done that , we have now done one , right that is now going to be dealt with by Simon and introduced by Monica are they going to be dated the day she produces them or what are going to be dated ? |
| 6 | ‘ We comply with them or we are excluded from these markets . ’ |
| 7 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 8 | I never fed them or they were to look after themselves . |
| 9 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 10 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 11 | Billy 's only problem was that someone or something was pursuing him . |
| 12 | She had the feeling that someone or something was watching her every movement . |
| 13 | That every person is an end in himself or herself is related to the fact that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , something which everyone has the potential to be , whatever talents or gifts of fortune they may or may not possess . |
| 14 | I find it difficult to conceive of a situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make an order positively requiring a doctor to adopt a particular course of treatment in relation to a child , unless the doctor himself or herself were asking the court to make such an order . |
| 15 | Dolly Nobody or Whatever was coming along . |
| 16 | There was a strange feel about the place as though somebody or something was watching . |
| 17 | Client agrees with KPMG ( for itself and on trust and as agent for the others mentioned below ) fully to indemnify and to hold harmless KPMG , its partners , employees , its lawyers , [ Stephenson Harwood ] , any Approved Broker and ( subject to Client 's prior consent to their engagement ) any other advisers , agents and consultants retained by KPMG in connection with the Offer ( any and all of which or whom is referred to as an ‘ Indemnified Person ’ ) from and against any and all losses , claims , costs , damages , actions , proceedings , demands , liabilities and expenses whatsoever , joint or several , ( collectively ‘ claims ’ ) which any such Indemnified Person may suffer or incur and which relate to or arise from , directly or indirectly , KPMG 's engagement hereunder and/or the provision by KPMG of its services in connection with the Offer . |
| 18 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 19 | If you can record interviews at different points in a course , then edit the same student 's interviews onto one tape , you provide an encouraging record for the student of the progress she or he is making . |
| 20 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 21 | But sometimes the problem lies in our assuming that religious concepts have the same meaning for different people , when in fact there are grossly different understandings , even within Christianity , of who or what is meant by God — to take only the most basic example . |
| 22 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 23 | Either he 's patronizing you or you 're patronizing him . |
| 24 | If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off . |
| 25 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 26 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 27 | Something or someone was following them , treading through the trees on the side of the track . |
| 28 | At the beginning of each sequence , a picture of a human , an animal or object was presented , and the sequence was introduced as being a ‘ story ’ about whoever or whatever was depicted in this initial picture . |
| 29 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 30 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |