Example sentences of "or [pron] would [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I think there is certainly capacity erm for Skelton to expand , or I would n't be sitting here supporting erm the people I represent . |
| 2 | Somehow this is an awareness he 's built into me or I would n't be able to spot it where nobody else can . |
| 3 | ‘ Now my job 's up north , or I would n't be on this train now . |
| 4 | Or I would n't be able to be on the street , |
| 5 | And , to me , of course , you are — or I would n't be here to begin with — Jewish . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't recall any mention of them , but I suppose I must have or I would n't be able to see anything , would I ? |
| 7 | Well , obviously , or I would n't be a paediatrician , but I 'd be quite happy to have dozens . ’ |
| 8 | you know that awful viral thing that 's going around and I meant to be pass the infectious now , or I would n't be here with you . |
| 9 | You obviously know who I am or you would n't be here . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose you must think so , or you would n't be here . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And yet you must still believe in marriage , ’ she realised , ‘ or you would n't be so disgusted by the way I 'm supposed to have come between Florian and his wife . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 're drunk , ’ said Harvey , ‘ or you would n't be so corny . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously , it appeals to you , though , or you would n't be seeing her . |
| 14 | " You are already forgiven , my children , or you would not be here . |
| 15 | Or you would not be here . |
| 16 | But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again . |
| 17 | She was n't a child any longer , or she would n't be after tomorrow . |
| 18 | I wonder if ‘ name and address supplied ’ would volunteer to be chased five miles by an angry mob being happy in the knowledge that when caught he or she would not be beaten up but dispatched humanely ? |
| 19 | This was to ensure that he or she would not be pressurized to publish things against their judgement or be got rid of in favour of an outsider who would change the paper 's political line . |
| 20 | ‘ We are still within the amateur regulations or we would n't be here , ’ Grant Fox , the All Black outside-half , said yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously there 's something or we would n't be here . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’ |
| 23 | Manifestly , we have no effective deterrent for hooligan crime , or we would not be debating the issue . |
| 24 | yes but you were , forgive me Lord you were asking him about deliberate er deceit or there would n't be any point in deliberately , get the exact word , misleading the prospective purchaser |
| 25 | Shaving does not , of course , cause hair to grow any thicker or quicker or there would not be any bald men about ! |
| 26 | That was also the political judgment of the terrorists , or they would not be so anxious to be interviewed by the media or so against the ban . |
| 27 | They are clearly approaching a shrine or altar of some kind , or they would not be behaving in this way ; in addition , our new view of the whole of the Knossos Labyrinth as a temple allows us to argue that even a staircase , as part of a temple-complex , might well be in a general sense dedicated to a presiding deity . |
| 28 | ‘ What is common to them all ? — Do n't say : ‘ There must be something common or they would not be called ‘ games ’ ’ — but look and see whether there is anything common to all . |
| 29 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 30 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |