Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way . |
| 2 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |
| 3 | Behaviour can help or hinder just like a hammer that can be used to construct or destroy . |
| 4 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 5 | The same is done when religion is reduced to ethics , or treated simply as a movement within history , to be explained and defended , or even proved , by historical research and demonstration . |
| 6 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 7 | But what if an employee refuses help , or drops out of a recovery programme ? |
| 8 | Since kitchens tend to be positioned at the back of the house , they are often in an ideal situation for extending into the back garden , or knocking through into a corridor or back room to create a more useful space . |
| 9 | A few people were about , returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry . |
| 10 | Whether this charm was involuntary , or used deliberately as a mask to hide his real feelings , she could only guess . |
| 11 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 12 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 13 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 14 | Proceedings for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership shall be commenced in the court for the district in which the partnership business was or is carried on ( Ord 4 , r 5 ) . |
| 15 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 16 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 17 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 18 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 19 | When we feel resentment or act out of a sense of duty it can sometimes be seen and felt by the person concerned . |
| 20 | Dropped , discarded or duffed up in a temper — who knows ? |
| 21 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 22 | Some angles are quite bizarre , from up on the ceiling , down on the floor , in the corner of a room , or looking in from a window . |
| 23 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 24 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 25 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 26 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 27 | If you are married or living together as a couple , you should only make one joint claim ( any other members of your household should make a separate claim ) . |
| 28 | From time to time , taking one to lunch or meeting up for a drink gives you a chance to talk shop and learn about the other 's work and publications . |
| 29 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 30 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |