Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority ( 76 per cent ) claim to have understood what was required of them well or very well , and that the introduction of the scheme in their school had been fairly to very adequate , ( 78 per cent ) . |
| 2 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |
| 3 | You see I get the impression that , that most of you more or less are willing to except all the bad things about cars because given at this particular hundred has sixty three car er , car or vehicle owners , you 'll put up with the danger and the pollution and er , er all the various bad side effects of the motor industry because weighing things up you 've got independence , you 've got freedom , you 've got shelter , a wardrobe , some where to carry the kids , is , would that be a correct estimate , is that , that , that is a general |
| 4 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 5 | ‘ 'Appens to all of us sooner or later , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The police are efficient , very efficient , and they 'll catch up with you sooner or later . |
| 7 | Your deeds will catch up with you sooner or later , mark my words . ’ |
| 8 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 9 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 10 | All our acts , he thought , come back upon us sooner or later . |
| 11 | She looked for him once or twice ; even went one day to the tiny public library which was in a room with stained glass windows at the back of the Town Hall , but she could n't find him . |
| 12 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 13 | So my mother calmly said , And I 'm not opening the door to you now or ever , she said . |
| 14 | After speaking to him once or twice and receiving no reply , Hazel thought it best to let him alone . |
| 15 | I had Mr Harris , the vet , out to him once or twice , and he gave him tablets which worked miracles for a time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be able to talk to her sooner or later , and it sounds as if she might actually be useful . |
| 17 | But now I feel I should have sprung it on him more or less suddenly . |
| 18 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
| 19 | Of course if anything happened to us tomorrow or tonight because we play West Indies tonight |
| 20 | Erm it 's only just asking us to have a look at an idea which has banded to us once or twice , erm , we can have a look to see if erm , we can erm , have an in-house building maintenance , to develop the amalgama the amalgamation a little bit further than what we have already , erm , it wo n't harm harm us to have a look , so I 've got no real trouble with that at all . |
| 21 | ‘ She will hear about it sooner or later , ’ Peg replied . |
| 22 | ‘ I have thought about it once or twice but it seems impossible , ’ said Endill . |
| 23 | I 've got ta get at it sooner or later . |
| 24 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |