Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 2 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 3 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 4 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 5 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 6 | Is that done once a day or each driver ? |
| 7 | — THE THF owned Golden Fleece in Thirsk has moved up a notch or two , both in the kitchen and on the cash register , since last we were there . |
| 8 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 9 | This made the limitations clause even more interesting , for the older man ( and no doubt his ancestral assumer ) had quite obviously used not a swepe or balista as the charge , but an almost identical engine of war known as a mangonel , in witty and canting allusion to the family name as used by them . |
| 10 | So so far we 've got maybe a week or two filling in a reference , two or three weeks in UCCA , and a week in the university , which is almost I guess almost two months . |
| 11 | He was n't certain that Emily had n't forged ahead a stage or two . |
| 12 | At this point you should go through the exercise on the senses and underline where you have used either a simile or a metaphor . |
| 13 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 14 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 15 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 16 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 17 | But they 've pulled off a surprise or two , Courtney Walsh has looked as good a bowler as anyone in the country and one or two new names , have emerged . |
| 18 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 19 | The general standard of farming was good , reflecting the influence of the sons who had attained either a degree or a diploma in agriculture before returning home . |
| 20 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 21 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 22 | At Knossos and Phaistos , an extra refinement in the masonry of the West fronts was a foundation course of very large blocks : the rest of the wall was stepped back a centimetre or two to make a feature of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Manchester United have not taken on a troublemaker or an enfant terrible — they have bought a personality and a man capable of magic in his boots . ’ |
| 24 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 25 | All available goods may be taken on a sale or return basis . |
| 26 | I 'm told the nursemaid takes the child 's food away from him after he 's taken only a bite or so . |
| 27 | Mr Nibbs tempers the Nail 's desire for vengeance against the King , insisting that the King be treated justly — taken down a peg or two without injury . |
| 28 | Good to see United taken down a peg or two last evening , though it was nausating hearing that swarmy bastard Armfield and his accomplice talking about the scum in such glowing terms . |
| 29 | He deserved to be taken down a peg or two . |
| 30 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |