Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 2 | For weaving and punch lace you can in theory have either the left or right light on , though most patterns have been designed with one or more in mind as indicated by the pattern sheets or books concerned . |
| 3 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 4 | Or rather singing about . |
| 5 | The main London to Exeter ‘ road ’ was said to have been a quarter of a mile wide by the end of the winter where it crossed — or rather plunged through — the sticky morass of the chalk on Salisbury Plain . |
| 6 | Two men were dancing , or rather standing around and twitching a little as the two boys danced around them , brilliantly , Harry noted . |
| 7 | It gets parcelled out among the society he moves in , or rather flits in and out of , while himself belonging elsewhere , which means nowhere . |
| 8 | Suspicion and hostility towards the law in working-class London at the turn of the century drew on much deeper funds of popular feeling than can be usefully or relevantly summed up as the work of ‘ Hooligan ’ gangs or ‘ Hooliganism ’ . |
| 9 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 10 | The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase . |
| 11 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 12 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 13 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 14 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 15 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 16 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 17 | I keep going round the painting seeing extra bits that need to be emphasised , or perhaps to blend in too start a line . |
| 18 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |
| 19 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 20 | For those old people who want to continue living outside institutional life , it means in many cases living alone or away from their children and grandchildren , or perhaps giving up their own homes to live in ‘ sheltered accommodation ’ overseen by a warden and social workers . |
| 21 | There are those , mainly salaried , workers who are able to choose whether or not to leave work at the retirement age , leave prematurely , or perhaps work on . |
| 22 | We would go out to lunch or perhaps look around a stately home — life became extremely rich because we could control Ruth 's pain with morphine . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 24 | We 've got to cross the river to get to the nearest shop which is about two miles away ; and in the winter when the weather is bad we 're more or less cut off . |
| 25 | Last week , when he had left Joe Hyde in the bookshop , he had more or less made up his mind not to attend the meeting of the Irish sympathizers planned for this night . |
| 26 | No you you got a more or less get up on something to sort it out . |
| 27 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 28 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 29 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 30 | By then , rigor mortis was progressing , but Noakes had got her more or less straightened out . |