Example sentences of "[to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes she even manages to go for a drink or meal with friends . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lisa would just have to cope for an hour or two . |
| 11 | If you would like to attend for a day or a weekend , we would be delighted to welcome you , but do let us know in advance ! |
| 12 | That 's why it 's best to go through an agency or er something like White and Eddies because they have people that collect them and they have people who have to take up references and |
| 13 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
| 14 | It is best to write for a list or catalogue so that you can place your order in good time . |
| 15 | Allow the heaterstat to adjust for an hour or so then turn everything on . |
| 16 | They had been a unit , had shared jokes , exchanged small gifts , written to each other when unable to meet for a week or two ; the assumption was always that this would continue , and expand . |
| 17 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 18 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 19 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 20 | P O A by the way , another thing I 'm thinking of doing is saying , if you want a net price enter in there , it has to come through a manager or |
| 21 | Also Tore-Andre Flo — the young brother of Jostein Flo is supposed to train for a week or two at Sheff Utd ; but this is just a training stay — nothing to do with Sheff Utd offering him a contract or so . |
| 22 | You have been using " n " to stand for a number or set of numbers . |
| 23 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 24 | Neither does the child learn to communicate like a chimpanzee or a canary . |
| 25 | This 1938 Massey Harris model , designed to work with a horse or tractor , will take 2 days to harvest this 4 acre crop of wheat . |
| 26 | As we have seen , the laws of war do not consist only of what states have formally agreed to accept in a treaty or convention . |
| 27 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 29 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 30 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |