Example sentences of "[noun] or [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off ! |
| 2 | Folly can mean a useless building or it can mean a clump of trees on a hill . |
| 3 | Readers may effect mappings between role fillers in different clauses of a text or they may effect mappings between names and role fillers . |
| 4 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 5 | But like , like erm that 'd be quite good because if I go to someone else 's house like , you do n't wan na be sort of like , messing about with all , all the stuff , you have n't got anything to mess about with , do your hair or whatever can you ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't cut her hair or it will stop her talking ! ’ |
| 7 | Make sure you apply the mousse evenly throughout the hair or you can end up with a stiff , sticky mess ! |
| 8 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 9 | Council can raise income through fees and charges , they have balances which they can choose to spend or retain , they have assets which they can use for their service provision or they can sell to raise capital . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 11 | So nothing to do with pets really , just put up with the hope or you can always take yourself with you miaow spreading the . |
| 12 | If the terms of reference you have in mind are not precise , or if they are not explicitly stated , you may not go far enough in your investigations or you may stray outside the limits that your boss or client has in mind . |
| 13 | I could help these lunatics or I could fight them on behalf of Stok ; neither of those ideas appealed to me . |
| 14 | There can either be an individual winner or there can be teams . |
| 15 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |
| 16 | Blu-tac or something ca n't you ? |
| 17 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 18 | As a result , some legs may step in pairs or there may be three legs in motion at once — two on one side of the body and one on the opposite side . |
| 19 | ‘ Give me sons or I shall die , ’ said Leah to Jacob ( Genesis 30 : 6 ) , expressing the anguish suffered by many people on learning they may not be able to have children . |
| 20 | She might not be able to produce the required number of sons or she might produce only daughters or she might even be childless . |
| 21 | ‘ You had to be able to play a lot of different things in the clubs or you 'd get killed ! |
| 22 | Make sure you do n't overcook the vegetables or they will go soft . |
| 23 | As neither Marcella or I could sing we spoke along to the music in what we felt , somehow , was Good Old Cabaret Style … |
| 24 | Abdul Aziz Rantisi said they would all leave their camp or none would . |
| 25 | Swimming baths or bleach or You can put some universal indicator or erm P H paper or |
| 26 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell the boy to bring this back on the 20th of March or there will be a fine of five rupees . ’ |
| 28 | I said er you might put housewife or you might put market researcher down , he said whatever you like so that 's that one . . |
| 29 | As we approach the end of the diet and exercise programme , it is important to decide at this stage how you intend to proceed afterwards.If you have a significant amount of weight to lose you have the choice of continuing on the diet menus as included in the daily plans or you can follow the diet contained in my Complete Hip and Thigh Diet . |
| 30 | You 're right Eileen it , you could have really bad luck and have all four children with P K U or you could have really good luck and none of them have P K U , or you could have half and half , that 's just an example , with each successive pregnancy you stand a one in four chance , those are all the possibilities , but like throwing the dice it comes up at random . |