Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are the spine and boards badly scuffed or rubbed ? ( the euphemistically-minded cataloguer may say ‘ chafed ’ , the French , more elegantly , ‘ tired ’ ) . |
| 2 | Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule . |
| 3 | Yet he so influenced or anticipated what was to come that he remains still the great point of departure for modern Protestant theology . |
| 4 | On visits to Romania , the curators of Ceauşescu 's residences , the state guest-houses and museums , noted that Zhivkov only stole or requested as presents the most exquisite items . |
| 5 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 6 | The former , likewise , are not ‘ neutral ’ , are often not easily reorganized or reinterpreted , and are always marked by the objective force of their history and material limitations . |
| 7 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 8 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 9 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 10 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the greatest bowler I ever faced or saw , and in my opinion certainly the best bowler Australia ever produced . ’ |
| 12 | It is not just the initial charge but also the upkeep — permanently tinted or lightened hair will need the roots retouching regularly . |
| 13 | He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . " |
| 14 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 15 | When asked by the judge if she ever drank or got aggressive . |
| 16 | People mostly walked or came on bicycles . |
| 17 | Erm at which meeting I also contacted or attacked four other people , one a solicitor , erm one running a sort of a a training centre , and two running businesses , one in sort of sales and marketing , and one in production . |
| 18 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 19 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 20 | When there has been a contravention of subsection ( 1 ) of section 89 or of any of subsections ( 1 ) to ( 6 ) of section 90 or of a provision to which subsection ( 3 ) of section 89 applies , the company and every officer of it who knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention are jointly and severally liable to compensate any person , to whom an offer should have been made under the subsection or provision , for any loss , damage costs or expenses . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you rather I simply agreed or told the truth ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Allied forces completed on July 15 their withdrawal from northern Iraq ( temporarily suspended in late June — see p. 38308 ) , amidst clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and government forces which reportedly killed or wounded 500 people . |
| 23 | The irony is that having frittered our energies away in our endeavour to possess the object of our desire , having done all we can , even lied or deceived in order to obtain the object of our desire , we lose interest in that object because , whether consciously or not , we realize that we have not found lasting satisfaction or peace of mind . |
| 24 | As the old ways were forgotten , it simply disappeared or went underground . |
| 25 | Second , we have divided voters into those who regularly viewed or listened to any highbrow news programmes such as BBC-TV 's Newsnight , ITV 's Channel 4 News , or the BBC 's Radio 4 news , and those who did not . |
| 26 | What do you think of having in here artexed or airtexed or whatever it 's called , artex . |
| 27 | He had n't wanted to try for many months after his return and rarely smiled or laughed . |
| 28 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 29 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 30 | In the afternoons we either rode or tried to shoot birds with our air rifles . |