Example sentences of "you [conj] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 2 | That will stop you walking round the streets and put you where I can find you , thought Coffin . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He told her ‘ I 'm going to do a ballet for you and I will make you or I 'll break you . |
| 6 | They won t say , " I 'll come to the clinic with you or I 'll help you . " |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Just what you or I would say if we were buying a car ! ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do . |
| 12 | The description may be more precise than you or I might offer but it is a description for all that . |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever you or I might wish , history tells us this-that nothing is eternal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But watching this show is probably as close as you or I will get . |
| 18 | ‘ And you imagine you or I will survive to take part in this chivalrous duel ? |
| 19 | Spike proved to be a bad thing , as you or I could have told her . |
| 20 | The world is headed into chaos , child , and there is little you or I can do to stop it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can drag you or I can carry you — except that it would probably kill me . ’ |
| 22 | They will not be roads you or I can use . |
| 23 | Sir , we are much obliged to you for your consideration upon this matter , and I assure you that I shall do my best to avoid in the evidence which I shall give and in my other remarks apparently proposing a washed-over status for the village as a whole . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure I should n't have , but I was feeling so guilty about you that I would have agreed to do anything you asked . ’ |
| 25 | In my letter of [ date ] I informed you that I would keep the progress and costs closely under review . |
| 26 | I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know |
| 27 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 29 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 30 | You ca n't tidy up the house until after the fingerprint team have been , and I 've already told you that I 'll arrange for that to be done . ’ |