Example sentences of "in [noun] or [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift .
2 We all need a myth of some kind , whether it 's in living forever , in Communism or thinking you come from Sirius .
3 Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ?
4 Is the evidence so complex or specialized that the average lay person could reasonably wish for expert help in assembling and evaluating the evidence and in testing or interpreting it ?
5 As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ?
6 Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ?
7 Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ?
8 It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges .
9 ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed .
10 We provide rich sensory experiences — wrapping them in soft towels , letting them squelch in mud or helping them identify different tastes or the sound and smells of the countryside .
11 and in training presumably do you drop them in training or do you not ?
12 Even so they may also have difficulty in covering the full range of literature suggested , though not in understanding or enjoying it .
13 Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict .
14 She 's asked was that in school or did she go to your house ?
15 You have the choice of cleaning the Discs in position or removing them to wash in the sink .
16 No they could keep in power or remove him in turn as the say fit .
17 The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination .
18 First , did these two strangers suddenly appear in Oxfordshire or had they travelled from London ?
19 ‘ Except that I will not detain you in prison or expel you from Scotland , on one condition .
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