Example sentences of "nor [vb mod] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a case of children should not waste their time reading The Dandy , nor must they interrupt us adults as we reminisce about Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat . |
| 2 | Nor must he scratch his head or allow his gaze to flicker , even momentarily , to the fleshy white mounds bulging over the slashed neckline of her blouse . |
| 3 | An otherwise perfectly honourable sea-officer may state by symbol that he is a Frenchman , but he must not state that his ship has struck upon a rock , nor must he lower his colours and then start to fight again , upon pain of universal reprehension . |
| 4 | Nor should we forget our latter-day Darwin : the diarist , novelist or would-be intellectual sitting at home with his word-processor . |
| 5 | Nor should we blame them for their predicament . |
| 6 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 7 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 8 | Nor could they turn their backs on the housing needs of the people already living in the county . |
| 9 | Nor could I let him bully me . |
| 10 | Nor could he bring himself to stand with his back to the fire escape . |
| 11 | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see , for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured . |
| 12 | He could not make it out , nor could he trust his own memory . |
| 13 | Nor could he say she had no colour and no bosom to speak of . |
| 14 | He could do nothing , nor could he apply himself to thinking about her case . |
| 15 | Nor could she bring herself to go in her place , as Tommaso had asked . |
| 16 | Nor could she get his last words out of her mind . |
| 17 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 18 | There was no time for her to draw back , nor could she save herself . |
| 19 | There were other words , harsh , angry bitter words , but later Katherine could never remember exactly what she had said , nor could she recall her son 's replies . |
| 20 | More violent crimes than that performed by the jealous woman did not occur among the Chewong while I was with them , nor could anyone tell me of others in the past . |
| 21 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 22 | ‘ We ca n't see Charlton Athletic , Chester City or Maidstone United being refused entry , nor would we want them to be , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Nor would he allow anyone else to do so . |
| 24 | She was n't coming to London with him and nor would he recommend her as Administrative Officer at Larksoken . |
| 25 | Nor would he learn anything from the journal unless Meg gave him the key to it ; for the cypher was a special one , transforming itself constantly page by page as the journal progressed . |
| 26 | Nor would he say anything at all until he was before Thorfinn under the awning . |
| 27 | She knew Maggie was very sensible and that she would n't take up with any riff-raff , nor would she do anything she should n't . |
| 28 | She had never known what love and tenderness were until she met her Aunty Lizzie , and she knew that no one in the world would ever love her like that woman did ; nor would she love anyone else . |
| 29 | ‘ I would have gone with her , but , as I said , the interview with you meant such a lot to her , she just could n't cancel it — nor would she let anyone else — another journalist , I mean — do it for her . ’ |
| 30 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |