Example sentences of "or [pron] [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 2 | This file , or one identical to it , had emerged the victor of a curious contest at the Exhibition between Turtons ' English Files and a French company which manufactured another brand of file . |
| 3 | That ingredient is hereditary variation , or something equivalent to it . |
| 4 | The second is the traditional binary distinction between ‘ sound-change proper ’ and ‘ borrowing ’ : this distinction , or something similar to it , still seems to be assumed in many orthodox accounts . |
| 5 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 6 | Mm yeah oh well if you find , you know , there 's anything you like about it or anything interesting in it that does help because it , you know , it certainly makes it a lot easier to learn things , take information in , revise things erm whatever . |