Example sentences of "or [adv] with [pron] " in BNC.

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1 To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma .
2 So do n't hesitate to ask questions or , or discuss points which you feel erm have not be made very clearly or perhaps with which you do n't even agree .
3 It is claimed that one litre should support no less than 50 fish of one foot or less with its surface area of 800 square metres .
4 more or less with what 's a good will and who you have to have in mind and disposing of the estate and being tax effective so that that .
5 It were always like , me and our Colin were more or less with me dad , and our Margaret and John were more or less for me mum .
6 Children will play wherever they happen to be — in the garden , the street , at the park , with friends or alone with their toys .
7 Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking .
8 Theo did break his journey and came to spend a day or so with him .
9 He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February .
10 Edward and Reggie were to spend six weeks or so with his cousins in Pontardulais , while Ernest and Oscar stayed with relations in Cwmavon .
11 In answer to ‘ obscure and spurious questions such as whether universals may exist by themselves , whether they are only in the mind , whether they exist separate from things or only with them ’ , he says that these ‘ great universals are nothing more than … common nouns … that can be applied to more than one object ’ .
12 The Soviet Union , so the story goes , is simply a different type of state , and we can not expect it to live peacefully or comfortably with its main adversary .
13 Although teachers can always raise matters individually in their own areas with their reps or directly with me , to get an overall view it is vitally important to have general discussion from time to time .
14 When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there .
15 There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their
16 Each entry should include ten news stories or features , three of which should be 350 words or more with one giving a pupils ' view of what the next government 's policies should be .
17 Do n't go out unless you have six men or more with you ! ’ he said .
18 If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action .
19 John and Elizabeth Newson found in their 1976 study Seven Years Old in the Home Environment , that two-thirds of their sample of Nottingham seven-year-olds fought sometimes or often with their siblings , and half of these ( girls as well as boys ) actually came to blows fairly regularly .
20 The Profitboss invests time in developing and maintaining personal contact , whether it be internally with the service engineers or people from Accounts , or externally with his customers or potential customers .
21 Almost all were conservatives if compared with their contemporaries in most other Western Churches , in secular society or even with their own younger clergy .
22 Of course if he made the wrong decision he could pay for it by loss of his command , as we have seen , or even with his life , as happened to Timagoras , the ambassador who accepted humiliating terms at a peace conference in 367 ( Xen .
23 But when I sit here , wide awake , with my eyes open or even with my eyes closed , then … "
24 These are also strongly accented as the arms straighten into 2nd position before being bent , with hands sometimes clasped behind the head , sometimes placed akimbo on the waist or sometimes with one on the waist and the other behind the large bow at the back of the head-dress .
25 Or indeed with anyone .
26 However , when sugar is present without much fat or indeed with none , as in a packet of fruit pastilles or some light desserts like crème caramel , the calorie cost is often lower than people imagine .
27 Erm and he started coming to this centre he he came to the centre once or twice with my other brother for some advice I think , welfare right advice .
28 Or else with her own line in fashion clothes .
29 Return on capital attempts to measure the efficiency or otherwise with which directors use the funds entrusted to them : while employment is a rather important measure of companies ' progress which tends to be overlooked in conventional financial circles .
30 The ease or otherwise with which test data are interpreted and related to behaviour in the market depends on the type of test .
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