Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 2 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 3 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 4 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 5 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |
| 6 | At many moments of weakness , or love , Thomas had spent far more money than he could afford or even wished for the sake of Simon 's joy in the holidays . |
| 7 | Even if a relatively highly geared mortgage can be obtained , the cost of indemnity insurance on such mortgages has doubled or even tripled since the boom . |
| 8 | Most studies do not use representative samples , and personality traits are typically assessed after the eating disorder has developed , thus making it difficult to determine whether the personality features caused , maintained , or simply resulted from the eating disorder . |
| 9 | They sat in rows and watched television or simply stared into the distance . |
| 10 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |
| 11 | Other couples wandered in their wake , or else lingered on the hilltop by the Commemorative stone , happier in their partners . |
| 12 | The area was featureless for precision flying , with large square fields either filled with cattle or recently ploughed after the wheat harvest . |
| 13 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |