Example sentences of "one or [adj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've one or two calls to make as well . ’ |
| 2 | I 've one or two calls to make . ’ |
| 3 | At one or two points the Jacob/ Laban stories ( chs. |
| 4 | We shot the son who never calls , then when he does call Beattie complains he never visits ; the Mrs Jones commercial , done in almost one or two takes ; the ‘ Happy Birthday ’ song ; an answering machine , starring only my voice and my son Melvyn ( it was actually my favourite and was never shown ) ; and the one which launched a cache of catch phrases — the ‘ Ology ’ commercial , coincidentally starring Jacob Krichefsky , son of Bernard and Judith , my Muswell Hill neighbours . |
| 5 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 6 | There is a battered old Steinway piano in the hotel downstairs , and I have had one or two goes on it . |
| 7 | But better still , if you decide you are going to fish the same one or two swims each time , is to set up permanent anchors . |
| 8 | Usually after one or two turns these gliders will unstall themselves and build up speed rapidly in a spiralling dive . |
| 9 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 10 | ‘ I most certainly take exception to one or two hints around at the moment that our biggest problem is keeping our cool . |
| 11 | You know I erm Hugh was talking about erm somebody being thrown out of hospital after gall bladder operation after only two days well fortunately these days there are one or two strives in er in in health care erm to erm which is very much easier to er , operate on people if you 're if you if you 're going to put them out cos the operation 's more er simpler it 's far less stress on patients and and , and they they 're becoming a lot quicker er , clearly if faded out er , the way is completed then er obviously things are serrated with with the chief executive of the health authority and I 'd like to give you this October when when the Chief Executive was . |
| 12 | There have been one or two irksome omissions — Elektra , Die Frau ohne Schatten , productions that were highlights of the Strauss centenary celebrations in Salzburg and Vienna in 1964 — as well as one or two works that Karajan has recorded but not conducted in the theatre since Ulm or Aachen . |