Example sentences of "or go to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 2 | But in many cases boys and girls leave home at around eighteen to get work , for further training , or to go to university . |
| 3 | They express current mood , state of finance , preparation to take part in sport , or to go to work . |
| 4 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 5 | A. Each day , in the Mersey estuary , some twenty or thirty ships are arriving or going to sea . |
| 6 | Although dozens of political detainees had been released in August 1990 and in March 1991 , the report said that more than 100 political prisoners continued to be held , some " for up to seven years without ever being charged or going to trial " . |
| 7 | People with schizophrenia who are discharged from hospital to live with relatives who are over-critical , disapproving or who express a high level of anxiety and tension , are more likely to suffer early relapse than those returning to a neutral or tolerant atmosphere , and spending less time in daily contact with other members of the family , possibly by attending a day centre or going to work , seems to help some sufferers to cope with an emotionally charged home environment . |
| 8 | Routines help a child to master daily tasks like feeding , washing or going to sleep , so that more can be achieved with less effort . |
| 9 | Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973b ) found that the most common reason given for not getting in touch with a helping agency was that the overdose was seen as a way of relieving strain or going to sleep . |
| 10 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 11 | Green is the ‘ go-ahead ’ code for the type of behaviour you want from your children , the actions you always remember to praise and encourage : sharing toys with another child , perhaps , or going to bed without a prolonged fuss . |
| 12 | If you insure all the property in your flat against theft , fire etc. you have less of an incentive to make the place thief-proof and to check over it carefully before going out or going to bed than if you were not insured . |
| 13 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 14 | There would be an extra pair of hands to tend the sheep , to trade , to work the land , or go to school then work in the city and send money home . |
| 15 | She could watch television or go to sleep . |
| 16 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 17 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 18 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 19 | Judge Lawrence Rubin warned : ‘ Sort yourself out — or go to prison for three years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Produce him — or go to hell ! ’ said Mr Rochester . |
| 21 | If too many units are produced , stocks will lie idle or go to waste ; if too few are produced , the item will go out of stock , and it may be difficult to fit in further batches in the short-term . |
| 22 | First he attacked the tents of that Moorish Queen the Negress , who lay nearest to the city ; and this onset was so sudden , that they killed full a hundred and fifty Moors before they had time to take arms or go to horse . |
| 23 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 24 | You may be able to sue a negligent surveyor or go to arbitration , but you are likely to be the loser , though your interests are now ( since April 1989 ) better protected in law . |
| 25 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |
| 26 | The sub-divisions which arose were , in the main , based on where fans lived or went to school . |
| 27 | Always , outside the wire , the bored guards relieved each other at two hourly intervals while , inside , prisoners did the washing-up or quarrelled or went to sleep . |
| 28 | Me , who never read a clock or went to work in my life . |