Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 3 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 4 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 5 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 6 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 7 | It is excellent for developing empathy ( putting themselves in the shoes of a person from the past ) , or perhaps exploring an event from different viewpoints ( to target interpretations of history ) . |
| 8 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 9 | Or perhaps try a set of … |
| 10 | Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems . |
| 11 | It means more than serious inconvenience , or even widespread inconvenience ( so that people might not be able to park where they usually do , or drive down a particular street or perhaps miss a train as a result of the demonstration ) . |
| 12 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 13 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 14 | But you might want to create your own track pattern from a circuit diagram , or perhaps convert a stripboard layout to a printed circuit board ( p.c.b . ) . |
| 15 | If reading Alison 's story sets off alarm bells in your head about whether you too have an exercise obsession , or perhaps have a friend or sister who does , then turn to ‘ Obsessions : Where to get help ’ . |
| 16 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 17 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 18 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 19 | Many sociologists have addressed the relationship between ideas or beliefs and social structure and process but I shall not attempt to consider theories that more or less imply a sociology of knowledge perspective . |
| 20 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
| 21 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 22 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 23 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 24 | The Great War more or less put an end to the era of the great station and with it the period of the pre-eminence of the railways . |
| 25 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 26 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 27 | It is worth pointing out that rateable values can go up or down following an appeal , and care should be taken before acting . |
| 28 | or down paying a suitcase full of bricks . |
| 29 | We have a Prime Minister with un-Thatcherlike understatement , and wily pragmatism and body language of the friendly bank manager next door , or so says an article in today 's Guardian . |
| 30 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |