Example sentences of "or [vb base] they [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 2 | If you can keep your characters partially obscured , or fly them behind the enemy lines and out of his fire arcs then so much the better . |
| 3 | I found the wire loops , though , having seen the boys set them , and I tore them out or put them under the grass on the paths the boys used to take when they came to inspect their traps . |
| 4 | Please include your application for tickets on your postal booking form , or obtain them from the Festival House box-office from 15 October . |
| 5 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 6 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 7 | Ask your Ski Club Representative or Party Leader for vouchers or get them from the Clubhouse . |
| 8 | Most people keep a gun or two in the house ; some carry them around with them , or stow them in the glove compartments of their cars . |
| 9 | But at home you might put an open packet on a bench in the greenhouse or spill some seeds , or leave them on the grass while you run to answer the phone . |
| 10 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 11 | Or leave them in the trolley . |
| 12 | You can align and rotate objects , group or ungroup them or move them to the front or back . |
| 13 | 1.7 , a point of some significance in the context of this essay , and one to which I shall return later ) , or take them to the Temple for the ritual redemption of the first-born ( idem ) ; they were exempt from making the thrice-yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the feasts of Passover , Pentecost and Tabernacles ( Hag . |
| 14 | Yet in spite of the drive to encourage employers to recruit more people with physical or mental difficulties — or retain them in the wake of ill-health — too many are still backing off from taking on such staff , according to the Department of Employment . |
| 15 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 16 | You can either grown them in a pot , or sprinkle them on the cotton wool in the shape of your name or a pattern . |