Example sentences of "[vb past] or care " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council , or what was left of it now , nodded wisely although frankly none of them understood or cared much about mechanical things . |
| 2 | I could have been dead , for all you knew or cared . |
| 3 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
| 4 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 5 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 6 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 7 | Few people in the West knew or cared very much if they did . |
| 8 | I was 3,000 miles away , amongst strangers in a funny little town in Connecticut preparing to open a show which no one knew or cared about . |
| 9 | SUPPORT THE WAR Falklands , Gulf — who knew or cared ? |
| 10 | But why Mr. Mendez bothered or cared was something else . |