Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [prep] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. Then there swam pleasantly into her muddled mind the recollection that Jerome would never have anything to say about anything again , never drive at eighty-five or pick on Nora or do those other terrible and humiliating things . |
| 2 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 3 | see so if th if they get time off and they want extra men , they phone 'em up or somebody with a boat got bloke in the erm radio tower , cos you got a radio tower on the dock now which every ship that come into port or leave the port have to go through the radio tower and that man 's employed twenty four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 4 | The writer has used the plan as an aid to memory , jotting down , in a haphazard fashion , things that come to mind or seem useful . |
| 5 | We value our privacy and would rather talk about the weather than enter into controversy or volunteer our innermost thoughts . |
| 6 | But I do believe that we should seriously look at getting say , internal usage bags for nutrients er bags for lime , anything that we have printed , we ought to look at the and say to Mike or get 'em printed or something . |
| 7 | You might prefer simply to sit alone in a separate room and listen to music or read a book . |
| 8 | He reckons suppliers have a choice : stick with lower prices and compromise on quality or raise prices and maintain high standards . |
| 9 | ‘ He used to sit in the garden and go to sleep or drink hundreds of cups of tea . |
| 10 | Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores . |