Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 2 | It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 . |
| 3 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 4 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 5 | The effect of consent to treatment by the minor or someone else with authority to give it is limited to protecting the medical or dental practitioner from claims for damages for trespass to the person . |
| 6 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 7 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 8 | It may be necessary to chart events and actions to be able to show later that teachers acted promptly and appropriately ; in child abuse particularly , but also in other cases , careful records may be helpful in protecting the child or someone else from harm . |
| 9 | If she is to come to live with you , or someone else in the family , consideration should be given to arranging this along the lines mentioned in Chapter 3 . |
| 10 | This involves you or someone else in a chain with you being paid by goods , services or benefits , instead of in real money . |
| 11 | Your child may need to know because you or someone else in the family is ill , or because he or she has HIV or AIDS . |
| 12 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 13 | She can set something or someone perfectly in context ; she can see bits of life steadily instead of trying to see it whole , when it is intolerable . |
| 14 | In fact I feel sure I 've tried with your correspondent Richard , or someone very like him . |
| 15 | But there was somewhere , was n't there , where once , years ago , he had gone with his mother , or someone fairly like his mother , anyway ? |
| 16 | Everyone will recognise themselves or somebody else in the song . |
| 17 | The birth his birthday was twenty four months , that means from when you can buy it for a new born baby or somebody up to two years old , will be suitable for it . |
| 18 | Make a grand or summat out of that wo n't you ? |
| 19 | Do you want another drink or you alright at the moment ? |
| 20 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 21 | At just £9.95 , it 's a must for people who are furnishing or renovating , or who simply like buying things for their home . |
| 22 | They think they have to win to gain self-esteem , in other words they do n't value themselves highly unless they are constantly winning or one up on other people . |
| 23 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 24 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |
| 25 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 26 | But she wished the silly sod would look at somebody or something else for a change . |
| 27 | You see I mean it it did occur to me that er erm on on the three occasions that we 've done this now , it always turns out to be er me involved in about just you know either playing the piano or something else in just about everything . |
| 28 | Another reason why I needed a change , or something else by way of reaction , was an increasing interest in current politics . |
| 29 | Usually got a Cortina or something outside for sale , you know ? |
| 30 | a bairn or something all in the one . |