Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | pictures or shopping or round the market or just for a walk or for a meal . |
| 4 | ‘ We could go to the theatre or out to a restaurant or something . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 6 | or indeed from a resignation or premature retirement following the procedure , must generally be met from outside the school 's own budget share . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And so after a month or so 's arrears accumulated she got the inevitable form — an eviction notice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 11 | But no response came from the darkness , and after swaying precariously back and forth for a minute or two , his feet slipped on the twisting bamboo rods and he fell to his knees . |
| 12 | She twitched the hand-written parchment pages back and forth for a moment or two looking for them , then caught his amused glance . |
| 13 | For several years , she had not been attending school regularly but had instead been sent on provincial theatre tours , first with a dancing troupe and later as a violinist or actress . |
| 14 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 15 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 16 | That 's why er people who come to our company and then after a year or so think they can go away and do this on their own , ca n't do it . |
| 17 | The canal cut through that flat , agricultural landscape , its monotony broken only here and there by a farmhouse or a barn , until the closed Lock gates dammed it up . |
| 18 | He was now largely permitted to roam the grounds in freedom , and he came gambolling up to greet Theda with a bark , and then went off exploring again , just keeping the ladies in sight , and returning now and again for a pat or an encouraging word . |
| 19 | I was frightened , of course , but only for a second or two . |
| 20 | A gust of wind caught it and it slid towards the ground , but only for a moment or so . |
| 21 | And we would do it again , but not for a year or two at least ! |
| 22 | There is a limited defence for a retailer ( but not for a wholesaler or distributor ) who neither knew , nor had reasonable grounds for believing , that the goods were not reasonably safe . |
| 23 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 24 | But either as a compensation or as a contributing factor , the entrance of women into non-legal unions at increasingly earlier ages has occurred , in some cases in tandem with late age at marriage . |