Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 2 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 3 | Another dealer would regularly punt out £40,000 or so worth of stock or so on the account to — wait for it — a school dinner lady . |
| 4 | Derwent is expected to make trading profits of £2 million or so in the year to March . |
| 5 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 6 | Waiting at the pier approach , perhaps for the more genteel , was a line of carriages read to take visitors to Durlston , Studland , or just along the seafront to Ulwell . |
| 7 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 8 | When he managed to er get in er through the gates or wherever under the fence to the Trent Bridge Cricket Ground . |