Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The queen mother remarried but her new husband , Sir James Stewart , the Black Knight of Lorne , was soon seized by her enemies and ‘ put in a pit and bollit ’ ( presumably boiled in a pit or pot ) until she agreed to relinquish her son to one scheming clique . |
| 3 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 4 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 5 | ( viii ) Dry the pups with tissues and gently stimulate with a tissue or surgical swab until they are pink and breathing regularly . |
| 6 | There are probably many situations where you as a manager have become so used to a task or a situation that it is no longer easy to bring to it a vigorous or fresh approach . |
| 7 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 8 | There are pygmy varieties that can be grown in a sink , right through to vigorous kinds that are only suited to a lake or large pool in a public park . |
| 9 | Is there really much harm in a father or stepfather fondling a girl ? |
| 10 | The strange factor is that what may evoke this process could be a rather wonderful event , perhaps linked to a relationship or career matter . |
| 11 | Venetian blinds are better suited to a study or workroom where a simple , practical treatment is needed , and where they can be easily dusted over . |
| 12 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 13 | It was possible to think , as she herself points out , that she had merely tripped over a plug or something ; in fact Ann has an artificial leg . |
| 14 | It is found that receipts are stamped with a firm 's name and merely initialled by a cashier or other employee . |
| 15 | Bright attractions such as the damselfly are only encouraged with a pond or running stream . |
| 16 | Lots of time spent reading light novels , listening to music , watching the television or talking are helpful , as is the ability ( perhaps aided by a drink or a pill ) to fall asleep when these more active anodyne activities come to a halt . |
| 17 | A handsome child , Cara 's bold image , it seemed , with Odette 's timid spirit , apparently engrossed in a book or was he ? — from which he did not lift his eyes . |
| 18 | But for the butcher , baker , DIY shop , holiday company or plumber , the remedy seems to be to go to another trader next time , and write this disappointment or disaster down to experience , unless it is bad enough to take to a lawyer or the Small Claims Court . |
| 19 | A general rule could be made that weak syllables which are phonologically composed of a plosive or fricative consonant plus are uncommon except in initial position in the words . |
| 20 | The most important difference is that the symptoms of Chronic Urethritis will only last for a day or two after intercourse . |
| 21 | In those days the infant Crocker had run up paths lightly and gleefully to bang on a knocker or ring a bell and , elated with an enormous naughtiness , hidden behind a hedge to see the angry householder erupt and curse . |
| 22 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 23 | We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look . |
| 24 | The side uses the British Gas sports ground at Acton for home matches and normally plays on a Wednesday or Thursday evening during the season . |
| 25 | They do not spring from a vacuum or according to some arbitrary whim of the people and legislators , but have their origins in the human need to control and order existence . |
| 26 | The poet is no longer regarded as a visionary or a genius ; he becomes a skilled worker who arranges , or rather , rearranges the material that he happens to find at his disposal . |
| 27 | When an inductor and capacitor are arranged in a single arm , the bridge is best regarded as a resonance or tuned-arm bridge . |
| 28 | If horsetail is to be introduced to the garden at all , it is best confined to a container or , if planted in the open , in an area of the soil bounded by concrete at sides and bottom , so that the rhizomes can not penetrate what in effect is a concrete box . |
| 29 | I am sure their bodies were not designed for a two- or three-week period out of the fifty-two weeks in a year , however important that period may be . |
| 30 | Here partnerships would not act as a proxy or alternative to the local education authority but rather as facilitators , allowing schools and colleges to learn more about accountability , how it is portrayed and realised . |