Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or did he think Or did he think it was pneumonia ? |
| 2 | Before she could think or reason she levelled the gun at the face before her and felt herself pull the trigger . |
| 3 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 4 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 5 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |
| 6 | We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest . |
| 7 | When he names the most-important squad of his England career — the one that could make or break him — I do hope he includes the names of Wright and Everton 's Peter Beardsley . |
| 8 | How these banks set about merging will make or break them |
| 9 | Accessories can make or break you . |
| 10 | But at this point I ca n't decide if the evening 's cabaret will consist of , ‘ Deep down , I 'm just the same old Lil you knew before , so how about it ? ’ or ‘ I 'm a star now , baby , and I can make or break you , so let's do it my way . ’ |
| 11 | Deny or threaten it , and you deny and threaten someone 's existence . |
| 12 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 13 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 14 | If she had sobbed or fainted or begged him , he would probably have given way . |
| 15 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 16 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 17 | Simon , did Steve stay or did he just leave you there ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Who owned or used it ? |
| 20 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 21 | But no way would we want or expect them to fund state education . ’ |
| 22 | Na , I mean answered a yes to that question , but I do n't think it 's a matter of do you want or do you no , cos I do n't think the choice is there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This type of order is made ex parte , the court sitting in camera , for the object of the exercise is to enable the plaintiff to enter premises and obtain access to documents or objects without the defendant having an opportunity to remove , hide or destroy them . |
| 25 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 26 | And I certainly would not be there to confirm or deny it . |
| 27 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 28 | What is important is what a person is ‘ concerned and accountable ’ for , what he ‘ owns and imputes to … self ’ , what his ‘ conscience [ is ] accusing or excusing him ’ of . |
| 29 | For both Kung ( 1981 ) and Lyotard , art moves within the area between man 's capacity to conceive an idea and his ability to create an artefact that evokes or articulates it so that one of art 's more important roles is the symbolization of what does not yet exist . |
| 30 | If your child does something you would like her to continue doing — for example , talking to you , asking questions , pointing things out to you , smiling and generally communicating with you — and you take notice , smile , communicate or praise her , she will continue to do it . |