Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German crisis — or should one say simply the German crisis ? — is thus essentially a political crisis , and the answers to it , if there are answers , must also be political . |
| 2 | Anyway it bring 's back the age old question , should we play Batty when he comes back or should we leave well enough alone ? |
| 3 | Or should we ask instead if the General really made a habit of such manual labour ? |
| 4 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 5 | ‘ Or should I stop off and buy some ? ’ |
| 6 | Or should I go on till I die ? ’ |
| 7 | Should I too give Jacob my maidservant , Zilpah , or should I give in to Rachel ? |
| 8 | So I can just because they have been found and I shall use them you shut up , or should I shut up . |
| 9 | The clues come together nicely , or should I say eventually , but just require you to persevere with the game and take notes when you find new clues . |
| 10 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 11 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 12 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 13 | Should he sweep her into his arms and kiss the daylights out of her first , or should he slow down for explanations ? |
| 14 | Or should he go completely the other way ? |
| 15 | Or must I wait about while the brat traipses away up there with meat for her , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | Or might he think more about Thomas 's colouring and return for a second , closer look ? |
| 17 | Specifically , environmental scientists have posed the politically charged question : are the catastrophic climate changes measured in this and previous work at the crest of Greenland the result of climate boundary conditions unique to a glaciated North America , or could they recur tomorrow ? et all . |
| 18 | Do you , for instance , want a disco because it will bring a welcome break to an otherwise ( necessarily ) heavy and demanding programme , or could it prove too sharp a contrast and interrupt the concentration you 're trying to establish ? |
| 19 | Or could you find out how many flies one swallow would eat in five hours ? |
| 20 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 21 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 22 | would you like to add anything or shall we stop there ? |
| 23 | Or shall I go down in history as the High Queen who lost Tara for always ? |
| 24 | Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out ? |
| 25 | Or shall I come here ? ’ |
| 26 | Will you come down to me , or shall I come up to you ? |
| 27 | Should we set up structures so that ordinary behaviour becomes highly effective or would we set up structures that demand special behaviour ? |
| 28 | There was no one in sight , but should she trespass into what was blatantly a private area or would she do better to tramp all the way up the stairs again ? |
| 29 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 30 | Or would it resist even time and the North Sea and still be standing when the final darkness fell over the planet ? |