Example sentences of "you [coord] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 2 | My speech was directed at Karen Parsons , and whatever reservations you or I may have about it , I can assure you it went down a treat with its target audience . |
| 3 | He told her ‘ I 'm going to do a ballet for you and I will make you or I 'll break you . |
| 4 | They won t say , " I 'll come to the clinic with you or I 'll help you . " |
| 5 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 6 | As the brochure on the procedure in these cases explains it is not always possible to conclude a claim as quickly as you or I would like . |
| 7 | Just what you or I would say if we were buying a car ! ) |
| 8 | Instead of telling the silly tart to go and put some knickers on , as you or I would have done , these guys go all sweaty and hot under the collar , and stare at her , gobsmacked and embarrassed . |
| 9 | Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do . |
| 10 | The description may be more precise than you or I might offer but it is a description for all that . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever you or I might wish , history tells us this-that nothing is eternal . |
| 12 | Next door , two elderly ladies from the Esperanto Society smiled more in hope than expectation at every preterpasanto — or passer-by , as you or I might say . |
| 13 | Perhaps you or I might have got fed up with all the attention and been tempted to tell the crowds to go home and leave us alone . |
| 14 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 15 | But watching this show is probably as close as you or I will get . |
| 16 | ‘ And you imagine you or I will survive to take part in this chivalrous duel ? |
| 17 | Spike proved to be a bad thing , as you or I could have told her . |
| 18 | The world is headed into chaos , child , and there is little you or I can do to stop it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I can drag you or I can carry you — except that it would probably kill me . ’ |
| 20 | They will not be roads you or I can use . |
| 21 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 22 | ‘ Never mind , you and me will manage on our own , right ? ’ |
| 23 | My current owner , it said , is in need of succour and assistance ; why not give it to him , so you and me can go off somewhere and enjoy ourselves ? |
| 24 | I shall still be here ; you and I shall follow on later . ’ |
| 25 | She paused , and her fingers lightly touched Millie 's cheek , as she said , ‘ My prayers will go with you and I shall remember you always . ’ |
| 26 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 27 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 28 | We 've got two sessions planned erm and I would like to Rob that you and I ought to meet and talk about how we 're going to handle that session in some detail and the videos . |
| 29 | I do n't expect he could use a slide rule either , and you and I might think that using a slide rule would be one of the marks of an educated man , but I think things move on . |
| 30 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |