Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 2 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 3 | … 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And outside in the chora or hinterland , and virtually ignored by Thucydides , were the ‘ true blacks ’ , the Sikel peasants or serfs . |
| 9 | To get anywhere you have to master a bagful of verbs — ‘ to go somewhere , on foot , in one direction ’ ; ‘ to fly , generally speaking ’ ; ‘ to arrive , by means of transport , but only in the past or future ’ ; and so on . |