Example sentences of "or [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves getting the aircraft into an attitude with the tail-wheel or skid just off the ground . |
| 2 | To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way . |
| 3 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 4 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 5 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 6 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
| 7 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 8 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 9 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 10 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 11 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 12 | You may , of course , add to your letter later in writing or say more about the case at the Appeal Committee hearing . |
| 13 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 14 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 15 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 16 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
| 17 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 18 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 19 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 20 | If you start to choke on something , put your fist into the soft spot under the middle of the ribcage and keeping ‘ punching ’ yourself , or bend forwards over the back of a chair and bounce your abdomen off it . |
| 21 | Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner . |
| 22 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 23 | Essential for sets , you can sit back and relax with your favourite mag or catch up on the gossip with the girl under the next dryer ! |
| 24 | When we feel resentment or act out of a sense of duty it can sometimes be seen and felt by the person concerned . |
| 25 | we 're gon na have to have a manual involvement or override there by the project coordinator to , to , |
| 26 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 27 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 28 | She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot . |
| 29 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 30 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |