Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 2 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 3 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |
| 4 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 5 | pictures or shopping or round the market or just for a walk or for a meal . |
| 6 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 7 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 8 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 9 | It was not allowed to stand , merely to percolate through the roots , and channels-were dug to conduct the water away into another meadow or back into the stream or river . |
| 10 | Not all video machines have this property but it is becoming more and more common to be able to see the picture as you run forward or back on the tape or disc . |
| 11 | By diffusing gas in or out of the bladder or expelling it directly through the connecting tube , a fish could accurately control its level in the water . |
| 12 | ‘ We could go to the theatre or out to a restaurant or something . ’ |
| 13 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 14 | Only if the capital sum is paid directly or indirectly to the settlor or the spouse of the settlor can the provision apply . |
| 15 | or indeed from a resignation or premature retirement following the procedure , must generally be met from outside the school 's own budget share . |
| 16 | … a Messuage or Tenement with the Outhouses , Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford … |
| 17 | Certain roads in Frome are to be widened : among the properties affected are ‘ … a Messuage or Tenement , with the Outhouses Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford 19 June 1797 . |
| 18 | The uniform ‘ polis ’ , by contrast , feels that regardless of the offence or its value , he is primarily dealing ‘ at first hand ’ with ‘ prigs ’ and is thus fulfilling another metaphorically prized position as ‘ a good collar feeler ’ . |
| 19 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 20 | Comedy is radical , too , in the sense of forcing the reader to reconsider traditional reverences : tragedy can flatter and soothe with an assurance that even in the dungeon or on the scaffold the heroic mind is invulnerable . |
| 21 | This is , of course , a far more optimistic view of the location and nature of power in capitalist society than either of the elite or Marxist theories which we have outlined . |
| 22 | But the development of trusts and the final disappearance of common law dower rights in 1833 meant that until the late nineteenth-century reassertion of women 's independent property rights , a wealthy widow was much more dependent on her male kin than either in the past or today . |
| 23 | It is n't intended to go anywhere , just fill the time of day … on and on and on with no point or purpose other than to fill the time , like the rocking of a chair . ’ |
| 24 | And so after a month or so 's arrears accumulated she got the inevitable form — an eviction notice . |
| 25 | Would he would he ever stop and down on the way or something like you know overnight ? |
| 26 | Jung 's distinction drew attention to whether a person relates predominantly to others and less to the self or vice versa . |
| 27 | Egon Zehnder has established a reputation for high quality and absolute discretion , charges fees based on work to be undertaken and not on a contingency or percentage of salary basis , and has retained practically all its senior staff . |
| 28 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 29 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 30 | In personal injury cases the damage caused is usually all too painfully obvious even though its cause was a negligent act or omission many years before ; and time usually runs from the injury and not from the act or omission causing it . |