Example sentences of "or [pers pn] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main street of Ballinasloe , I had to act fast , or I would miss my train . |
| 2 | I said she had to change her lifestyle and eating habits or I would insist she came home . |
| 3 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 4 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 5 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 6 | No oh no they or they would dump it in a place where nobody would see it you see . |
| 7 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 8 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 9 | The natives insisted he burn the book or they would attack him . |
| 10 | He dare n't go back or they would see him . |
| 11 | Or they would rob them or threaten to execute them . |
| 12 | Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership . |
| 13 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
| 14 | She had known their affair had to end or it would destroy them both , but now that it was about to do so , she was terrified of a future in which there would be no Luke , not even Luke causing her unhappiness . |
| 15 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 16 | It was only when Hurley called Coleman direct at the end of March 1988 , telling him to get his ass over there in a week or he would find somebody else , that Donleavy agreed to release him . |
| 17 | One thing she was quite certain of — she was in love with Edward and that meant she would have to continue to let him — or he would find someone else who would . |
| 18 | Either she told him or he would force it from Una . |
| 19 | He fell sideways , but I knew he was n't knocked out , he still kept hold of me , I suddenly felt I had to kill him or he would kill me . |
| 20 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 21 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 22 | But it bothered her , because Naylor You'll-do-as-I-say Massingham had as good as just told her that either she shut up and went along with everything he said , even to the extent of pretending to be engaged to him , or he would dismiss her ! |
| 23 | It would hurt to do it , to be without him , but she would have to if this went on too long , or he would destroy her emotionally , because she would have nothing left when he did finally tire of her . |
| 24 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 25 | Gotrek swore an oath that he would have his money or its weregeld price in Elf blood or he would shave his head . |