Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 2 | We 're hoping that will grow , that more and more friends will come and have lunch , tea or whatever with the residents . ’ |
| 3 | The Banker is a riverside pub , converted from a warehouse or something at the end of Cousin Lane , a cul-de-sac tucked under the armpit of Cannon Street station . |
| 4 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 5 | Er if it was something serious , like say we 'd had a murder or something in the village |
| 6 | It is n't the wind or anyone in the school . |
| 7 | Another excuse was that he needed liquidity for a property deal or something of the sort , so a complete sell out would be necessary within the next month or so , albeit with the least possible losses . |
| 8 | " I imagine there 's a dust-sheet or something of the kind in the linen-cupboard . |
| 9 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 10 | When we have jam jar or anything in the garden he can not get his nose out of it ! |
| 11 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 12 | Did they have a , did they have a band or anything in the church or did they sing without music ? |
| 13 | So the other ones , the ones that need correcting , we 've got ta do a procedure or something for the team ? |
| 14 | We might plan an outing or something with the whole staff — each one will say where they want to go and how to make it work . ’ |
| 15 | The girls were wanting something done , partitioned off up the back or something for the draught coming under |
| 16 | hedge or something in the front ca n't you ? |
| 17 | They appreciated the details of a particular look , the unspoken dress codes , the way a friend or someone on the street had got it ‘ just right ’ for her particular build or colouring , and the fascinating variety of different looks , different ways to dress . |
| 18 | er , I 'll do , you know the afternoon or a morning or something in the middle school |
| 19 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 20 | It 's rather like what we talked about right at the beginning we talked about picking out features from our image such as the the width the height er the grey area or whatever of the image . |
| 21 | ‘ Because he stayed in the bath too long and got shrunk , ’ said his grandad , who could never get into the bathroom when he wanted to because William or his mum were usually there , her in the bath or him on the lavatory reading a comic , which was one of his little pleasures in life . |
| 22 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 23 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 24 | He moves with Royalty , you know , his ma-in-law 's chief lady of the chamber or what-have-you to the Queen . |
| 25 | Do not love the world or anything in the world , if anyone loves the world , the love of the father is not in him . |
| 26 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 27 | ‘ In a shoe box or something of the sort . |
| 28 | I pay for the eh I pay ten pea or twenty pea or whatever for the ride . |
| 29 | Dependence Social power exists only in interpersonal situations ; others are involved and must be dependent on the skill , knowledge , strength or whatever of the powerful . |
| 30 | Because they 're becoming so obscure now , that they 're becoming an e exercise in erm obscures or obscurity or whatever in the same way into the same appalling state as the annual report disease is becoming a design competition not an annual report presentation of financial figures . |