Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We no longer have to worry about what we eat or drink or wear , for we will know his provision . |
| 2 | Be extra vigilant about what you eat or drink and with what or whom you come into contact . |
| 3 | They were formed where gases and liquids from the deep molten rock — the magma of the earth — escaped and cooled in long thin cracks in and around the granite batholiths . |
| 4 | You get done for , pulled up for speeding or parking or something and you can pay your own fine . |
| 5 | They used to call it drawing or clipping and scalloping you see . |
| 6 | Well , I do n't know who was the more insane , he for singing or Benjamin and myself for joining in . |
| 7 | " You get up so early and when you re not in chapel , you 're scrubbing or polishing or digging in the garden . " |
| 8 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 9 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 10 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 11 | In the steep-sloped area , a situation might have developed where overgrazing and deforestation occurred as a result of onerous taxation and loss of land to colonisers , leading to virtual environmental collapse . |
| 12 | Unrest was also being caused by a rise in socialism , and the odd situation arose where socialists and expansionists were united in common disagreement with the government . |
| 13 | Nearly all have favourite places where they regularly sleep or drink or hunt and most move around along particular trails . |
| 14 | Sleep or naps and waking time |
| 15 | The ‘ toughness ’ of plants is not necessarily a characteristic of either angiosperms or gymnosperms. as it seems that plants struggling to make themselves ever more unpalatable , grew ‘ tougher ’ as time passed . |
| 16 | The cobbles are slightly greasy , so that if an adventurer runs at maximum rate for any reason he must make a successful I test or slip and fall suffering 1 automatic Wound . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 18 | The weather project packs will be produced by WWF 's Education Department in conjunction with the publishers Hodder & Stoughton and will be available in Spring 1990 . |
| 19 | A word , phrase , spelling or construction that has become out of date : quoth he , peradventure , burthen ( burden ) , etc . |
| 20 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 21 | Ideas of space and shape , as children fit or match or choose shapes and so on , will be involved . |
| 22 | However , because of their own fear or disgust and the general lack of understanding of addictive disease , this reluctance to moralise is frequently forgotten where alcoholism or drug addiction are concerned . |
| 23 | If a canoe capsizes or sinks because it was manifestly badly built then no further explanations are required . |
| 24 | But if attempts to produce this concrete research are doomed to neglect or derision or to be defined as ‘ espionage ’ , then what can be achieved ? |
| 25 | All homeworkers supplied their own heat , light and materials — glue or paste or thread — and sometimes also paid an initial premium for the supply of work : this was particularly common in dressmaking and did not die out until the growth of the ready-made trade in the 1920s . |
| 26 | I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this . |
| 27 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 28 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
| 29 | He is surely also right that philosophical reflection gives adequate ground for denying that colour and value can be there independently of the consciousness of them . |
| 30 | Regarding the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) [ see p. 37838 ] , a Soviet Foreign Ministry statement on Dec. 21 disclosed that Baker and Shevardnadze had discussed the dispute surrounding " the accuracy of data on the number of weapons and military equipment " supplied by the Soviet Union . |