Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 2 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 3 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 4 | Either we use them properly or we get rid of them . |
| 5 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 6 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 7 | If your child is slow at school , you suspect it 's because you are not with them enough or because you should have read with them more . |
| 8 | There was a flaw in the intervention For example , the rewards chosen were unsuitable in that the child did not value them enough or there was inconsistency because the PB was defined ambiguously . |
| 9 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 10 | The lex fori will be satisfied by proof that the plaintiff has secured the service of the documents on the defendant abroad , either by taking them personally or ( much more usually ) by employing an agent . |
| 11 | Timmy would spend hours happily banging them together or against the bars or , as now , slobbering against one of the stones in an attempt to get it into his mouth . |
| 12 | Did he zip them together or just hand her one ? |
| 13 | If we would just organise those leads once and for all , and essentially , erm the leads belong to the video recorders rather than the monitors , and if those somehow were attached , if we could at least tie them together or whatever |
| 14 | The struggle between the NGC and the PLO leadership was one of several important developments which persuaded the people in the West Bank and Gaza that neither the Arab states nor the PLO were capable of liberating them militarily or diplomatically and that it was pointless to continue to hope for a solution from the outside . |
| 15 | Now am I right or am I wrong , Sir Gregory ? " |
| 16 | Am I right or am I right ? ’ |
| 17 | Yours faithfully yours sincerely or faithfully ? |
| 18 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I more or less demanded that Nigel be referred to her . |
| 20 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 21 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |
| 22 | I more or less fell into it , and without quite realising what I was doing obeyed a primitive instinct to hide by crawling under the track . |
| 23 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 24 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 25 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall I send them away or can you sleep through that ? ’ |
| 27 | The employer may find it difficult when he becomes aware of the fact that his former customers are now dealing with his former employee to prove that preparation to entice them away or enticement did in fact take place during employment . |
| 28 | and I once went in to collect some and erm , I think it was Mrs said oh good have you come to take them away or something like that cos there was , there were n't many left in the school so I |
| 29 | ‘ OK , then , if you want me to play it straight , I 'll introduce you tomorrow whether you come out for dinner with me tonight or not . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't know whether to put them outside or not |