Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pers pn] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they 've been bitter and sometimes hopeless , but no matter how they 've fallen or why they 've fallen , the time comes when they stop and whether you like it or not , or intend it or not , stop they do . |
| 2 | She would not wake him or touch him or even lie close enough to feel his warmth . |
| 3 | I suppose you do know that not everyone can see ghosts or hear them or even feel them . |
| 4 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ Or leave it till later , if you like . ’ |
| 6 | It remained for the Spaniards to connect them in extended compositions and base them on secular songs as Cabezón did on the ‘ Canto del Caballero ’ and ‘ Guardame las vacas ’ or play them as so many Mass-movements and motets were even more incongruously played — on the lute . |
| 7 | He really did all sorts of things to help us , and we never said please or thank you and now he 's dead . ’ |
| 8 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |