Example sentences of "or [adv] [vb base] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
2 | or still do them in the evening ? |
3 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
4 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
5 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
6 | Make a latticed frame to go over the fire and put the trout on it or otherwise hang them over the smoke , and if possible cover it all with branches of more leaves to keep the smoke inside . |