Example sentences of "or [adj] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if , if I put twenty five forward , or fifty forward and dad puts fifty forward that 's a hundred , we can get a fair bit of food for a hundred quid could n't we ? |
| 2 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 3 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 4 | Well the main squad would come in about two o'clock or three o'clock and er was already for them to start working . |
| 5 | Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know . |
| 6 | And if you got four together you may be two down or three down and one back , you could make it pay , and share the cost out between everyone . |
| 7 | For cinemas , you have to guess at the popularity of a given programme : it is , however , possible to buy PG or 15 or 18 only and , now , individual films , while you can also buy an Audience Delivery Plan , guaranteeing a number of admissions . |
| 8 | He 's 26 or 27 now and that final year of waiting to qualify could tell against him . |
| 9 | But they light the lanterns henhouse might be about four or five o'clock and you maybe leave it in the henhouse maybe till nine or ten at night . |
| 10 | Allow to cool slightly , then serve warm , or cool completely and serve cold with salad . |
| 11 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 12 | It was three or four a.m. and the music was very slow ; and usually at that time Boy would have gone , or have found someone , or have been found by someone . |
| 13 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 14 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 15 | The scene is much more complex than it was say a generation or two ago and Moderator we in the Church of England should be much interested to learn in due course whether you too will feel a need to make liturgical revision for these various paths to faith . |
| 16 | Rozanov let the curtain drop and took a pace or two up and down . |
| 17 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 18 | I thought you might like to send somebody over in the van and pick a bottle or two up and you can have a party in the studio after your show . |
| 19 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 20 | One or two now and then would be nice , though . |
| 21 | You ca n't win 'em all ; but one or two now and then would be nice . |
| 22 | One or two now and then would be nice , though . |