Example sentences of "[adj] or [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't of minded , like I said to the bloke er if he , if I 'd been er a hundred pounds overdrawn or fifty quid overdrawn or something like that , I would n't of minded so much because I knew |
| 2 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 3 | And , without being narrow-minded or anything like that , I must say that lipstick does n't suit you . ’ |
| 4 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
| 5 | int he village you know , except maybe at at the Social or something like that , said , Come on up and sing and then I forget my words and that 's me . |
| 6 | The activity involved may be heavy or light or something with a specialised technique . |
| 7 | An eighteen year old or something like that eighteen seventeen eighteen nineteen year old something like that who would like you know a fiver or tenner . |
| 8 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 9 | I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp . |
| 10 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 11 | With a horse you want that tomorrow morning ; and if you 're going to leave it neglected you 'd have it with sore shoulders ; you 'd have it lame or something of that sort . |
| 12 | The younger the people get , I find that not wanting to be erm whatever , regionalist or anything like that , |
| 13 | So they 've , have they been terraced or something like that ? |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't disturb him when he 's reading or sleeping or anything like that . ’ |
| 15 | She 's a wonderful lady , a wonderful mother , not simple or anything like that , just a very trusting person who could never bring herself to speak ill of anyone . ’ |
| 16 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 17 | We could do it up till Christmas , three monthly or something like that |
| 18 | My old man said he 's erm , he used to go down to er , every , every sort of six months or so , cos they were in he was in charge of fucking then , he 'd used to have to go on manoeuvre 's about sort of six monthly or something like that |
| 19 | He thought little or nothing about law , or jurisdiction , or faculty . |
| 20 | The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force . |
| 21 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 22 | Their careless , feckless , irresponsible father was gone and though he contributed little or nothing to their care or well-being while he lived , his going left an enormous gap in each of their lives . |
| 23 | It was proof that what had meant so much to her meant little or nothing to him . |
| 24 | We hear the haunting sounds of the Humpback whales as they communicate under the sea , across vast distances , but understand little or nothing of what is passing between them . |
| 25 | They saw little or nothing of each other . |
| 26 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 27 | Although regulations concerning the duties of an independent examiner have yet to be issued , there is an implication that such a person would charge little or nothing for their services . |
| 28 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 29 | Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next . |
| 30 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |