Example sentences of "[verb] it or [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee did not have the power to repeal the decree , but Gorbachev was now required either to rewrite it or repeal it himself . |
| 2 | Candles give a warm glow to the festive arrangements ( but make sure they are far enough from the wallpaper not to scorch it or damage it with hot wax ) . |
| 3 | Tongue-and-groove panelling will make a complete transformation : stain it , varnish it or paint it . |
| 4 | She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check . |
| 5 | Then she noticed the walking stick jammed up against the wall between the table and the chair , exactly as though he wanted to hide it or disown it . |
| 6 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 7 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 8 | People own masses of land , not developing it or working it . |
| 9 | In practice that will only occur if there are difficulties in serving the defendant ( see , for example , Gurtner v Circuit [ 1968 ] 2 QB 587 , Howells v Jones ( 1975 ) 119 SJ 577 , Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May ) or if there has been an express or implied agreement to defer service of the writ or the plaintiff 's delay in serving it or renewing it has been induced or contributed to by the defendant 's words or conduct ( Heaven v Road and Rail Wagons Ltd [ 1965 ] 2 QB 655 ) . |
| 10 | Yeah I 'll see you can borrow it or buy it . |
| 11 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 12 | To be given life and not to serve it or embellish it . … ’ |
| 13 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 14 | When a number of people have taken that holiday , they may conduct another poll to investigate whether they enjoyed it , and , most important , whether they would repeat it or recommend it to friends . |
| 15 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 16 | Watch it or wash it ? |
| 17 | One either hated it or loved it . |
| 18 | ‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name . |
| 19 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 20 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 21 | The GDR 's choice is between dealing with chaos quickly and overcoming it or putting it off . |
| 22 | I could n't understand it or analyse it , but it was there . |
| 23 | I did n't understand it or share it and was n't part of it . |
| 24 | They are no longer prepared to ‘ like it or lump it ’ with publicly delivered services . |
| 25 | they , told them they can like it or lump it and they said the miner 's strike , but she still won the election after the miner 's strike which |
| 26 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 27 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 28 | Between £40 and £60 , plus of course that often forgotten cost in petrol to fetch it or choose it . |
| 29 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 30 | Her part of the bargain was to keep that body in good working order , not to abuse it or damage it , and so far she had managed to do that pretty well . |