Example sentences of "or [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Lubrication in the woman , like erection in the man , is not under conscious control and can not be turned on or off at will . |
| 3 | Lasts all day so you can hop on or off at leisure to visit attractions en route . |
| 4 | They are largely nocturnal , spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings . |
| 5 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 6 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |