Example sentences of "[adv] or [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical activities can also sometimes cause difficulties since restricted visual fields can make it difficult for a child to catch a ball , wield a bat effectively or aim at a goal . |
| 2 | Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion . |
| 3 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 4 | In this new , commercial market a major sales point is the energy saving that is possible with central control of heating and lighting , either manually or according to a timed program . |
| 5 | Specialist animal insurance companies usually offer such cover at little cost , either separately or built into a health protection policy for your pet , or it may even be incorporated into your household insurance . |
| 6 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 7 | It has a curved hemline and can be worn outside or tucked into a skirt or trousers . |
| 8 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 9 | Fault scarps will only be formed where a fault breaks the surface ; they can either die out laterally or merge into a monocline ( Fig. 3.33(A) ) . |
| 10 | Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop … |
| 11 | Would you care to accompany me now or follow in a couple of minutes when you have finished your conversation ? ’ |
| 12 | When the loop is complete the model zooms wildly or comes to a stop in a nose high attitude . |
| 13 | Trying to work out whether I should go to the Electric Ballroom tomorrow or go to a pub or something . |
| 14 | Uncrossed cheques and postal orders should be crossed immediately or stamped with a ‘ crossings stamp ’ to avoid fraud . |