Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those companies between them owned or managed 95 fishing vessels which were until 31 March 1989 registered as British fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ) . |
| 2 | None of them moved or looked at me . |
| 3 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ It was awful , Guy , ’ she whispered , after a long time when neither of them moved or spoke . |
| 5 | I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft . |
| 6 | Did n't give a shit whether I lived or died . ’ |
| 7 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 8 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 9 | Going round the stands I met or saw Lady Grierson whose husband Ronald , received a knighthood in the Birthday Honours , and her son Mr Jacob Grierson ; . |
| 10 | " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . " |
| 11 | It 's totally … it 's totally , I mean logically and legally , it 's a ridiculous distinction ; I do n't think the distinction is important — that what comes out in the end is the same thing ; I committed or omitted , however you want to put it — it 's all the same thing . |
| 12 | Remember , I was operating in the dark at that time , with no precise information on my enemy , no positive place of attack , motivated by what I sensed or feared . |
| 13 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 14 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it sounds awful but I felt she would criticise what I did and how I looked or try to organise me . |
| 16 | She hesitated , said shyly , ‘ That is something I have learned , I suppose — that in the past I never stopped to think before I spoke or acted … though , goodness knows , you both told me to , often and often . ’ |
| 17 | I bought or stole all the pieces of human body that I needed , and slowly and carefully , I put them all together . |
| 18 | I bought or stole all the pieces of human body that I needed . |
| 19 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 20 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 21 | ‘ And you ca n't say I did or prove anything . ’ |
| 22 | As we rode through the forest , Sapt told me everything that he could about my life , my family , my friends , and the things I liked or did not like . |
| 23 | Right up to this minute you were unshakeable in your innocence , no matter what I said or did . |
| 24 | No , I 'll be okay , I said or whimpered — just get me some tea or something Selina , she 's turned the tables on me somehow , that Selina . |
| 25 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 26 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 27 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 28 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 29 | I closed my eyes and watched the sheets of warm colour that came as I relaxed or increased the tension of the lids . |
| 30 | You succeeded or failed . |