Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major loss was through transfer out as fifteen people were relocated or moved abroad on promotion or on changing to a new firm . |
| 2 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 3 | You look like you just landed back on earth or something and it 's a real shock . ’ |
| 4 | Quorum maintains that it relied solely on Motif or Open Look for the pull-down menus and uses Adobe Display Postscript or SunSoft Inc News for screen rendering and therefore could hardly have infringed Apple 's patent or copyrights . |
| 5 | It has created a world of mobility : of rapid and constant change , with attention focused mainly on novelty or utility — a world eager to break free from tradition which has become irrelevant to a restless , fast-moving age . |
| 6 | ( d ) The gang may be constituted of two or three core members with other tradesmen or labourers employed either on daywork or discounted rates . |
| 7 | If I have n't got my eleven on a Thursday night , it meant overtime on Friday or Saturday morning , that 's what it meant . |
| 8 | Wages depended not on skill or responsibility but on quantity of output , regardless of quality . |
| 9 | Many of the boats carrying Haitians were intercepted by US Coast Guard vessels operating in the area and their occupants held either on board or at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba where an emergency refugee camp was set up . |
| 10 | Fairly musical song , uttered either on ground or in air ; calls ‘ tchup ’ and ‘ che-vee ’ . |