Example sentences of "or [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | I ask but one single thing : to let me love and care for my poor , weak , ill-used wife as poverty permits , without their trying to separate , worry , or hurt us . ’ |
| 3 | But Walcott does n't give his characters enough to do , or make us warm to Sonny so that we care whether he stays a tourist toy . |
| 4 | We must ensure that any new action does not jeopardise what we have done or make us lose more than we have gained . ’ |
| 5 | We want to help , as long as it does n't take too much time or effort , or make us too obsessive and puritanical . |
| 6 | I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again . |
| 7 | We chose the following three dads as the winners of our Top of the Pops Competition because they either warmed our hearts or made us laugh . |
| 8 | We chose the following three dads as the winners of our Top of the Pops Competition because they either warmed our hearts or made us laugh . |
| 9 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 10 | Having failed to break us politically or silence us through censorship , the role of the death squads is to kill us . ’ |
| 11 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 12 | If you are interested in our products but are unable to visit us please phone or fax us for our mail order lists . |
| 13 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 14 | Do let me know if you want us to get a taxi from King 's X — or send us keys so we do n't wake you up ? ! ( 12.23 yawn … ) |
| 15 | Pity and fear slow us down , or send us away . |
| 16 | Now suffering , in the proper sense , is caused precisely by external factors affecting us , physical conditions or the actions of other human beings which afflict or constrain us . |
| 17 | Let us strive for relationships that are mutual and be careful not to impose ourselves on people who do n't want or need us . |
| 18 | As with people we meet during the day , some authors are accepted as close friends while others alienate or repel us . |
| 19 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 20 | They are never brought up again to taunt or accuse us . |
| 21 | Set up , or let us both set up , a credit for me . ’ |
| 22 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 23 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 24 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 25 | ‘ Leave me now , or let us fight until one of us is dead . |
| 26 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 27 | But on terms he knows the boy wo n't accept himself or let us accept for him . |
| 28 | Not for him the slightly raucous ribaldry with which most of the chaps used to greet us , no slaps on the rear or tweaking of curls , or addressing us as ‘ darling ’ or ‘ my love ’ . |
| 29 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 30 | If Ted is reading this , they did n't see or smell us , honest ! |