Example sentences of "[adv] or [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor , however , are often blamed for their own poverty , accused of budgeting badly or living beyond their means . |
| 2 | Right or wringing your hands nervously . |
| 3 | 6 Light Full right of liberty at any time after the date of this Lease to alter or to erect new structures within or adjoining the Centre ( such expression here excluding the Premises ) in such manner as the Landlord shall think fit notwithstanding the fact that the same may obstruct affect or interfere with the amenity of or access to the Premises or the passage of light and air to the Premises It may be as well to include the words in parenthesis to remove any suggestion that the landlord may have the right to alter the premises . |
| 4 | Any seasoned dieter knows full well that she can ‘ cheat ’ that weight off the normal set of bathroom scales by shifting her stance a little or rushing off to empty the bladder , remove the dentures and so on . |
| 5 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 6 | They are out most nights visiting a post office somewhere or repossessing cars . |
| 7 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 8 | ‘ We practise lying on a bouncing ball and reading aloud or singing the words in the book . |
| 9 | Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion . |
| 10 | skipping perhaps or swinging a frayed rope |
| 11 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 12 | Yet the judge left as alternative verdicts open to the jury , guilty of causing grievous bodily harm , contrary to section 20 or guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , contrary to section 47 , without indicating to counsel his intention of doing so or giving the defence the opportunity to deal with such alternatives . |
| 13 | In control conditions children worked alone , either seeing one view only or walking round the table with the experimenter to see both . |
| 14 | The forms of lighthouses and boats , while almost toy-like in their basic simplicity , are developed internally in terms of a large number of planes or facets , and since the sky receives the same treatment , the painting resolves itself into a mass of small , shifting planes , jointed together or hanging behind each other in shallow depth . |
| 15 | As the days grew shorter , the Rectory colder , the pleasure they took in reading together or playing backgammon before the fire began to pall . |
| 16 | In this new , commercial market a major sales point is the energy saving that is possible with central control of heating and lighting , either manually or according to a timed program . |
| 17 | Most fishermen operating in offshore waters will have to use the devices immediately ; those fishing inshore or using smaller boats will have to use them within two years . |
| 18 | I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in . |
| 19 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 20 | All agree that the building they share in Aldershot , an outdated 60s 12-storey tower block , needs major refurbishment — closing it and moving to the Royal Logistic Corps training centre 20 miles away or converting it to an office block and building a new , smaller Army catering school alongside , are not seen as attractive options . |
| 21 | Leaving home should be a normal part of young adult development , but running away or leaving prematurely is an indication that life at home is no longer acceptable or bearable . |
| 22 | My mother was always ill , my father often away or working . |
| 23 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 24 | THE INDIGO Girls are so … well … um , inoffensive they should be presenting Play Away or running musical workshops for the under fives . |
| 25 | Frequently , too , there are major structural changes to the volcano , with a large part of it being blown away or collapsing to form a gaping crater , up to several kilometres across . |
| 26 | Our nation 's culture is bound up in that philosophy , which can not be written off as looking backwards or day-dreaming — it is deeply ingrained in all of us . |
| 27 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 28 | 12.3 In the event that any such dispute or difference can not be settled amicably the matter in dispute or difference may be referred by any of the Parties to a single arbitrator to be appointed by the Parties hereto or failing agreement within 28 days after being requested to concur in such appointment , according to the provisions of the Arbitration Acts , 1950 and 1979 or any statuary re-enactment or amendment thereof for the time being in force shall apply thereto . |
| 29 | Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition . |
| 30 | ‘ The assurances are OK and we have no intention of either looking elsewhere or altering our original itinerary , ’ Smith said . |