Example sentences of "or [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 2 | Mary Lovell , who has arranged the meeting , said that as well as fund raising a support group would identify patients in the area , find people willing to sit with a patient at their home to give carers a break , and provide volunteers to drive people to the hospice or generally help at the hospice . |
| 3 | When with a group , is it better to laugh or not to laugh at the joke you do n't hear ? |
| 4 | Much of the social life evolves around the poolside , where decisions are taken about where to eat for supper , and whether or not to meet at the terrace bar in the village afterwards . |
| 5 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 6 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 7 | Except for occasional — rare — meals at a nearby restaurant , they never went out , sending out for meals when they did n't feel like cooking , while Luke no longer even accompanied her to the various work-connected functions she sometimes had to attend at weekends , dealing with business matters of his own or else remaining at the apartment while she was out . |
| 8 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |