Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 2 | Hurry up or I 'll start jerking you up and down and then your hair really will come out and we 'll have enough of it to stuff a sofa ! |
| 3 | Speak up or I 'll have wolfed it . ’ |
| 4 | Or I 'll have to bash it with a rolling pin again . |
| 5 | You have very little room for manoeuvre within this service , and the Registrar General has reserve powers to impose services on you , and I would have to advice you it would be virtually , or I would have to say it would be impossible to achieve that ongoing reduction in future years . |
| 6 | I slowed some more and it was just as well or I would have missed him . |
| 7 | He 'd pulled his finger back or I would have bitten it . |
| 8 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 9 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 10 | " It is a good thing you addressed me so politely , or I should have eaten you . |
| 11 | I thought , I must get it cut — and then I remembered that I had no money to waste on that sort of thing any more ; it would just have to grow , or I 'd have to cut it myself . |
| 12 | The world is headed into chaos , child , and there is little you or I can do to stop it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Hardly , or I could have asked it over the telephone , and avoided imposing upon you . |
| 14 | Spike proved to be a bad thing , as you or I could have told her . |
| 15 | Davison 's manager Tommy Conroy said last night : ‘ Benichou 's people have asked for an extra couple of weeks and , although I 'll have to discuss it with John first , I think we 'll agree . |
| 16 | Is Jobson really 30 years old ? 2 million quid seems an awful lot of money for a 30 year old , although I would like to see us buy a really top class centre back . |
| 17 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |
| 18 | ‘ That did n't change my feelings , ’ he denied softly , ‘ although I might have known you 'd get the wrong end of the stick . |
| 19 | Although I might have known you 'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered ! |
| 20 | but I 'm afraid it may be quite a time before there 's room for you , although I 'd love to have you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was an honour to be captain in Cyprus and although I 'd like to say it was not important , it is nice . |
| 22 | But I enjoyed your tte — tte with Naomi in that choochy little patisserie , although I 'd like to smack her for one or two of her remarks . ’ |
| 23 | It is a novelty record in some respects , although I 'd like to think it 's a lot deeper than that too . |
| 24 | So that 's an important point and one which is not in Freud 's book although I 'd like to think it would have been , had he written it much later on when , when group erm therapy had become very fashionable . |
| 25 | ‘ In the circumstances , although I could have wished he 'd delayed his visit another hour or so , the edge of my temper had become somewhat dulled by recent events . |
| 26 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 27 | May I just say I went to erm Johnstown yesterday because I had half promised our friends here that I would go to support them . |
| 28 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 29 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 30 | But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him . |