Example sentences of "or [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
2 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
3 | Or she might drown him in the bath or push him under a train . |
4 | Or push him off the ball or something |
5 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
6 | Always carry it with you or push it into the soil . |
7 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
8 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
9 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
10 | Control the interview or lose it to the candidate ? |
11 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
12 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
13 | Did it open out a larger world for you , or confine you in a smaller one ? |
14 | And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that . |
15 | She thinks it is simply awful that being successful and ( reading the ill-camouflaged sub-text ) gorgeous means that men wo n't chat her up , admire her breasts or perceive her as a sexual creature . |
16 | If a stranger , or a bully , or even someone you know tries to harm you or touch you in a frightening way , RUN AWAY and get help . |
17 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
18 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
19 | As the program is installed , you can elect to have Power Launcher entered as a startup program — or place it in the startup program group , which keeps your WIN.INI cleaner — and also allow it to replace the control button at the top left of every application window with its own red and white icon . |
20 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
21 | er to consider , as to whether whether it would be appropriate to invite the winning schools for er to bring a party in or involve them in the erm Gala Day or e I mean i erm or the open day or something . |
22 | Environmental Issues is your magazine , and anything and everything is considered for inclusion , so do ring , write , fax or grab me at a conference ( well not literally ! ) with your information . |
23 | Someone may jump onto you or grab you in a lonely street . |
24 | I would be inclined to house the mower elsewhere , or replace it with an electric one . |
25 | I told the others , ‘ we either write some new songs and start behaving like a proper band again or knock it on the head , this time for good ’ . |
26 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
27 | If you can keep your characters partially obscured , or fly them behind the enemy lines and out of his fire arcs then so much the better . |
28 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
29 | I found the wire loops , though , having seen the boys set them , and I tore them out or put them under the grass on the paths the boys used to take when they came to inspect their traps . |
30 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |