Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recognizes abnormal cells , destroys them or walls them off . |
| 2 | There were other similarities in character which could be applied then and later in that Dupea was to be portrayed , in many ways , as the bastard who walks out of his family and a pregnant girlfriend , refuses to tell the girl he lives with that he loves her or to play the role of a caring son . |
| 3 | HOME FROM HOME : The luxury Norfolk cottage at the centre of the ‘ has he or has n't he ? ’ riddle |
| 4 | I 'm sure that will be covered this word responsibility frightens me or makes me apprehensive . |
| 5 | Tell a grown-up you trust if anyone frightens you or tries to touch you in a way which makes you feel unsafe . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when Lennie says something or does something wrong , George gets very annoyed and lets something slip without thinking . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether that encourages you or discourages my friends , but I mean , up there . |
| 8 | The collaborative MIPS Technologies Inc T5 processor development ( CI No 2,165 ) will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs . |
| 9 | The T5 will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs . |
| 10 | Figure 5 Diary record of behaviour sequences Source : M. Herbert , Working with Children and their Families ( London : Routledge/British Psychological Society , 1988 ) or I ask her to do something and she ignores me or says , ‘ I wo n't ! ’ . |
| 11 | If I stick up for myself he either ignores me or suggests that I 'm being impertinent and that I risk losing my job by being out-spoken . |
| 12 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 13 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 14 | Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’ |
| 15 | Does he or does he not propose to abandon the green form scheme totally and completely ? |
| 16 | Well does it or does n't it ? |
| 17 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 18 | So anything that the landlo er the rich peasant owns and works himself or cultivates by hired labour you 're going to allow to keep . |
| 19 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 20 | Yet no one stops it or persuades it to change its mind . |
| 21 | Partners , lovers and business associates alike are behaving like things possesses , and harping endlessly on about who earns what or owns what . |
| 22 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |