Example sentences of "or [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 2 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 3 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 4 | Because at the time the big boxing promoters and the New York State Athletic Commission , which had links with the Mafia , more or less decided who fought whom . |
| 5 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 6 | The stuff was either rubbish , or twee , or so boring it made you want to puke . |
| 7 | Indeed , the only question seemed to be whether he should even bother to make a move , or just let her do everything for him . |
| 8 | What it excludes are mass produced images , popular images of childhood , equally subversive or ideologically determined which punctuate our daily lives . |
| 9 | There are so many others who have good reasons but who do n't hate like you do , who do n't keep it up , who can forget , do something else , or even use it to achieve something . |
| 10 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 11 | This will make the operations of poachers that much more difficult , or even force them to pack it in altogether . |
| 12 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |