Example sentences of "[vb past] or die " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 2 | When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend . |
| 3 | Nobody cared if she lived or died . |
| 4 | It seemed from where I sat that she was in trouble whether Mahoney lived or died . |
| 5 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 6 | After all this time , when you did n't care whether you lived or died ? |
| 7 | Did n't give a shit whether I lived or died . ’ |
| 8 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 9 | Despite her outrage and hurt , Isabel knew she did care if fitzAlan lived or died . |
| 10 | Later in this interlude he meets Saul , who tells him it 's irrelevant whether he lived or died : the point is that the myth continues . |
| 11 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 12 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 13 | She 'd give that up when she pleased or die an old maid . |