Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two . |
| 2 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 3 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 4 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 5 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 6 | When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north . |
| 7 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 8 | To verify this the remedy is stopped for a week or two . |
| 9 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 10 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 11 | Sometimes she even manages to go for a drink or meal with friends . |
| 12 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 13 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 14 | In addition to showing the name and address of every member and the date on which he was registered as a member or ceased to be a member , in the case of a company with a share capital the register must also state the number and class of shares ( or amount of stock ) held by him and the amount paid-up on each share . |
| 15 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 16 | In short , where planning consent is given for a development or change of use , the question of nuisance will thereafter fall to be decided by reference to a neighbourhood with that development or use and not as it was previously . |
| 17 | A typical compensation sum demanded by an agent for a half-acre corner of land given for a pond or tree planting might be £750 , taking the market value of grade 2 land in the Midlands in 1986 . |
| 18 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 19 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , because this tradition tended to ignore the problem of consumption , the main impact of this craft revival was to promote a conspicuous handmade image , explicitly separate from the products of mass consumption , and immediately recognized as a quality or luxury product which signified , and thereby helped reproduce , the new moneyed elites . |
| 21 | This of course is the stuff of which martyrs are made , leading to sacrifice for a cause or causes in both religious and secular society . |
| 22 | It was probably just a big old rock , which had broken off a moon or a planet . |
| 23 | The wort is then run into a copper where it is boiled for an hour or more with hops . |
| 24 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 25 | Donning a yarmulke , he promised a Jewish group that ‘ we 'll keep a glatt [ strict ] kosher kitchen at the White House , ’ a pledge that his aides were at first unsure whether to treat as a jest or for real . |
| 26 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 27 | Simmer for a minute or until the sauce has a creamy consistency . |
| 28 | If a field of the data structure savedValues is used by a sub-program B , called by A , but not explicitly by A itself , then it will be listed as an input or output of B but not of A. The notation ( A|B ) means ‘ A or B ’ . |
| 29 | You mean as a newsreader or a a presenter of programme |
| 30 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |