Example sentences of "[vb past] or [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He either failed or did n't take his finals ; I could n't make out which . ’ |
| 2 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 3 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 4 | Of those two colleagues , interestingly enough , one is a health visitor by background , the other is a nurse , but someone who practised or has n't practised , but as a district health community planner for a number of years . |
| 5 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 6 | The Captain had no illusions about being able to guess what Demontis knew or did n't know . |
| 7 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 8 | This is certainly true of the two middle-class women who said they liked or did n't mind housework but were dissatisfied with it . |
| 9 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 10 | no my Lord that 's right , but , but , that does n't mean to say that if your Lordship did n't stayed there would be any , if your Lordship did or did n't stayed or any part of it does n't compute a validity of section fourteen until one 's got a judgment saying , it 's bad for example , I mean that 's what we 're arguing about until such and the |
| 11 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 12 | The facts behind this bizarre legal suit are hard to untangle : Sean did or did n't have an affair with Woods , now 44 , while they were making The Boost . |
| 13 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 14 | Like them or not , one could never be sure what Ken did or did not mean . |
| 15 | There was no significant difference in the duration of remission between patients who did or did not identify food sensitivities . |
| 16 | Marcion 's principle of exclusion gave sharp impetus to the early church 's need to define which books did or did not rank as authoritative documents to which appeal could be made . |
| 17 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 18 | For instance , the last chapter may have inspired you to make some very definite statements based on things your parents did or did not do in their marriage . |
| 19 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 20 | Whatever he did or did not do , Earl Siward was going to make trouble in Lothian . |
| 21 | Clearly , fact and fiction become intermingled in such a process , but , as Chapter 4 points out , the idea that ‘ treatment equals methadone ’ developed at this time in Wirral , as did native knowledge concerning which agency or GP did or did not prescribe methadone . |
| 22 | As cities have always acted as the principal focus of political and socio-economic life in the Middle East , the study of Aleppo will show the way in which communal , sectarian and other allegiances did or did not permit the emergence of a wider ‘ national ’ outlook . |
| 23 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 24 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |
| 25 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 26 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 27 | Questions were also asked about what guidelines the Social Work Department had or had not used . |
| 28 | It was just something you had or had n't done . |
| 29 | How terrible it was that here were she and Brian , possessed of every material advantage , subconsciously blaming each other for something they either had or did not have . |
| 30 | Both managers that I interviewed believed quite adamantly that leadership qualities were something somebody either had or did not have and could not be developed through training . |