Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority ( 76 per cent ) claim to have understood what was required of them well or very well , and that the introduction of the scheme in their school had been fairly to very adequate , ( 78 per cent ) . |
| 2 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |
| 3 | You see I get the impression that , that most of you more or less are willing to except all the bad things about cars because given at this particular hundred has sixty three car er , car or vehicle owners , you 'll put up with the danger and the pollution and er , er all the various bad side effects of the motor industry because weighing things up you 've got independence , you 've got freedom , you 've got shelter , a wardrobe , some where to carry the kids , is , would that be a correct estimate , is that , that , that is a general |
| 4 | So do you so do you go together , a few of you together or do you go . |
| 5 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 6 | You 've seen it before yeah that 's right you you recognise it from the shape and and er because you 've either seen pictures of it before or you 've been there . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Appens to all of us sooner or later , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Keep your wits about you tomorrow or you 'll forget something important and end up kicking yourself for being so stupid . |
| 9 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 10 | ‘ OK , then , if you want me to play it straight , I 'll introduce you tomorrow whether you come out for dinner with me tonight or not . ’ |
| 11 | Tell me — were you just being deliberately perverse with me earlier or had you forgotten you had a nephew called Svend ? ’ |
| 12 | If your child is slow at school , you suspect it 's because you are not with them enough or because you should have read with them more . |
| 13 | The police are efficient , very efficient , and they 'll catch up with you sooner or later . |
| 14 | Your deeds will catch up with you sooner or later , mark my words . ’ |
| 15 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 16 | What did he think you were still going out with him like or what ? |
| 17 | ‘ Did he take the key away with him then or call back for it that night ? ’ |
| 18 | If the interrupter persists you should deal with him severely or the discussion will become disorderly . |
| 19 | Does n't no , but the point if that was being contemplated and today we get away with it but we would n't get away with it tomorrow or Thursday . |
| 20 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 21 | You can come back with us now or you can call in at the Incident Room on the Wharf later today if you prefer . ’ |
| 22 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 23 | All our acts , he thought , come back upon us sooner or later . |
| 24 | She looked for him once or twice ; even went one day to the tiny public library which was in a room with stained glass windows at the back of the Town Hall , but she could n't find him . |
| 25 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 26 | There was nothing he could do for her now or in the future . |
| 27 | It is perfectly possible for the parties to incorporate terms by agreeing to them orally or in writing whether or not signed . |
| 28 | However , it is not obvious whether the respondents expect this to happen to them specifically or if it is a population level observation . |
| 29 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 30 | The other is by what you say , either to them directly or behind their backs . |