Example sentences of "or [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
2 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
3 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
4 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
5 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
6 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
7 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
8 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
9 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
10 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
11 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
12 | Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers . |
13 | IF YOU want to know what books are in the library or find out about the latest reports on new topics , you can now do this without leaving the comfort of your office . |
14 | It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there . |
15 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
16 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
17 | If you want , take to the water with a sunny trip by boat to view the coastline in a more leisurely fashion , or go across to the romantic island of Elba . |
18 | If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington . |
19 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
20 | The FIS was also demanding that presidential elections be held simultaneously with or follow shortly after the general election scheduled for June 27 . |
21 | If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right . |
22 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |