Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] or [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 2 | The court could be asked to observe injuries or scars on the child 's body . |
| 3 | There are , in criminal investigations , a number of situations in which the police adopt ruses or tricks in the public interest to obtain evidence . |
| 4 | But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions . |
| 5 | It seems that the majority of those attending courses or travelling to the national parks and other environmentally sensitive areas are relatively well-off , and their parents are using adventure , or at least what is perceived as being adventure , as a kind of finishing school for the modern citizen , without taking the trouble to come to terms with the environment in which this happens . |
| 6 | You can make connections or deals on the floor , but you know that it 's over that expense-account lunch , or in the private suite , the yacht , that real money is changing hands . |
| 7 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 8 | Engraved on my memory are the words , ‘ There is a complete embargo on taking photographs or sketching in the precincts of a court . |
| 9 | Engraved on my memory are the words , ‘ There is a complete embargo on taking photographs or sketching in the precincts of a court . |
| 10 | Lifting weights or exercising in the college gym three times per week will help build strength . |
| 11 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 12 | Throughout the late 1890s the police had been bothered by complaints about young boys throwing stones or spitting from the London bridges on to boats and their passengers below . |
| 13 | The children should be allowed to make things or play with the wood as they wish , but other materials may extend the possibility for experiment . |