Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might say " I am no artist " , or " I ca n't draw a straight line " , or " I have n't drawn or painted since I left school . " . |
| 2 | When something goes wrong , I find the quickest way to make matters worse is to launch in with my own fury , or insist that they repair the damage MY way . |
| 3 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 4 | It is entitled To Choose or to Lose and it proclaims a strategy ‘ developed against the background of the desire to solve or gain control of environmental problems within the duration of one generation ’ . |
| 5 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 6 | The condition is treated with sulphonamides or tetracyclines and the inguinal bubo may be aspirated or drained before it bursts . |
| 7 | Outdoor lighting should not cause any glare and even low-power lights should be fitted with diffusers or placed so they bounce their light off trees , shrubs or walls . |
| 8 | No more scrabbling for notepads or realising that you 've left your diary on your secretary 's desk . |
| 9 | A British citizen with a valid passport does not need a visa to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days for holiday or business or to transit if he enters the country on an air carrier that has agreed to participate in the no-visa program . |
| 10 | Even if you are resorting to it out of nervousness or fear that you have bad breath it will create a very negative impression on the interviewer . |
| 11 | The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it . |
| 12 | You may like to add the name of one or two referees to your c.v. , either to vouch for your general honesty and reliability or to confirm that you have the skills and experience you claim in the c.v . |
| 13 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 14 | The value of the lecture is doubled or trebled if you have read — even in a desultory fashion , without making notes — the essential features of the forthcoming discussion . |
| 15 | Some were imprisoned or banished when they refused to be silenced . |
| 16 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 17 | What is it to claim authority or to accept that someone has authority over one ? |
| 18 | The old rules have to be revised or discarded because they applied to the circumstances that existed when they were formulated , a hundred years ago . |
| 19 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 20 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 21 | We expect , or say that we expect , that individuals will be appointed to social offices of all kinds in their individual capacity and on the basis of their individual merit . |
| 22 | If , when you do , the neighbours think you are being anti-social explain or say that you have a passion for climbing roses or clematis , or make some other excuse if you wish to be polite . |
| 23 | Or say if you 've got a ten or eleven running off . |
| 24 | Duress that invalidates consent consists either of a credible threat to take substantial action against the agent or against a person or a cause that he values if he does not consent or in the taking of such actions against him or against persons or causes that he values with an offer to restore the situation if he does consent . |
| 25 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 26 | His lips did n't curve or pucker when he smiled . |
| 27 | Daddy 'll stay there or wait till I come home . |
| 28 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 29 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 30 | Johnston , a repeated critic of the Deans family , added : ‘ Two years ago , I told Hamish Deans that if his son took over Falkirk , he would either be accepted for life by the Falkirk fans or hounded until he left . |