Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered . |
| 2 | Failure to comply with the Act — which only covers agreements entered into under UK law or where one or both parties are in the UK at the time — can result in fines of up to £5,000 on summary conviction . |
| 3 | ( Marshall ( 1988 , p. 7 ) explained how memory loss affects completion of tasks , forgetting what one was asked to do , or where one was . |
| 4 | By and large , planting roses will be in one of two ways : either planting into fresh ground , a new collection perhaps , where they have not grown before , or you may be making a replacement of an old worn-out plant , or where one has failed . |
| 5 | Or where nothing happens ? |
| 6 | Picking a village which seems suitable or where someone lives who has been recommended , and talking to as many people as possible : later sending a letter to these people and others calling a meeting to form , one hopes , a WEA branch . |
| 7 | Perhaps it might be Charlie Chaplin , a bit of a comic one or or summat like that and er |
| 8 | Or or one ? |
| 9 | just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first . |
| 10 | Er n not really , you you may talk your way into some peasant 's house , and er er he 'd give you a scrambled egg or or something like this , and er that was something , if you got a scrambled egg . |
| 11 | And er generally er with families being larger er in those days , erm there 'd be perhaps another couple of sons working or or something like to help . |
| 12 | What if he wants to go Bristol or or something ? |
| 13 | Dad , or John , Elly or or something like that . |
| 14 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 15 | Wham , bam , ba , loo-la was n't it first ? , or or something , |
| 16 | Just money or or nothing . |
| 17 | How do you fe there are more coloured people Were there many peopl were there many coloured people when you first came here or just one or two or or none ? |
| 18 | I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else . |
| 19 | Erm I do n't think the on paragraph twenty three and consequently the suggestion that that kind of permission really are realistic at all , erm I think this government is totally obsessed with owner occupation at the expense of all kinds of housing , whether it 's permanent , rented or or anything else ! |
| 20 | Work them , I do n't say we do n't wan na lead them out or or anything like that , do all the work riders . |
| 21 | The , what we are proposing will by no means , create ghettos or or anything else within the housing stock any more than today 's policies are doing anyway . |
| 22 | Now we manufa yeah , you do not er , conservatories , or or anything out of the usual , draught stoppers |
| 23 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 24 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 25 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 26 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 27 | You may have fears — about things you did early on before you knew that you were pregnant or that something could be wrong with the baby . |
| 28 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 29 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 30 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |