Example sentences of "or [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach , in season , or in the park or a café , reading or catching up on my correspondence , or chatting to friends and acquaintances , as the whim took me . |
| 2 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 3 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 4 | I just do n't want to be the kind of person who suddenly disappears and , in ten years , people say ‘ Hey , I wonder what happened to that guy ? ’ … when I 'm living in misery on a council estate or eating out of rubbish bins . ’ |
| 5 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 6 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 7 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 8 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 9 | Several more items come tumbling or fluttering out over me … |
| 10 | A number of young men mentioned going off on their bikes to get away from it all , and amongst older adolescents driving around or driving out of town and parking to view the scenery were popular ‘ escape ’ mechanisms . |
| 11 | Since kitchens tend to be positioned at the back of the house , they are often in an ideal situation for extending into the back garden , or knocking through into a corridor or back room to create a more useful space . |
| 12 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 13 | Which do you care about more — keeping in with your friends or keeping in with Jesus ? |
| 14 | Or walking around with their clo without their clothes on or putting toast in the kettle . |
| 15 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 16 | Proceedings for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership shall be commenced in the court for the district in which the partnership business was or is carried on ( Ord 4 , r 5 ) . |
| 17 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 18 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 19 | Soft materials , like fibreboards and soft furnishings , also do n't respond , and so prevent sound reflecting or bouncing back off them , as it would from a hard surface like a mirror . |
| 20 | You can control the amount of ‘ sink ’ by either pulling up , as I am doing here , or pushing down on the boom . |
| 21 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 22 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 23 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 24 | Some angles are quite bizarre , from up on the ceiling , down on the floor , in the corner of a room , or looking in from a window . |
| 25 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 26 | You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed . |
| 27 | He was always getting up to wander down the aisles , interfering with the card school or listening in to people 's personal stereos . |
| 28 | It is entertaining to see a group of loushe Parisian types forming a street band or filling in for cabaret . |
| 29 | New Zealand lambs and dairy cows grow fat the old-fashioned way , by grazing in sunny meadows , not by munching bags of feed full of additives or wandering about on pastures drenched in chemical fertilisers , as their European and American cousins do . |
| 30 | From time to time , taking one to lunch or meeting up for a drink gives you a chance to talk shop and learn about the other 's work and publications . |