Example sentences of "or you would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father Abbot , you were not with us in Gwytherin , or you would recognize this wonder . |
| 2 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 3 | Explaining that you know you either want further information on it or you would like to erm you know take that one up . |
| 4 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 5 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 6 | Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ? |
| 7 | Or you would have , say , taken it to the Post Office , or something . |
| 8 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 9 | He said slowly , ‘ You do n't know me very well , Lissa , or you would understand that I do n't take kindly to facing the wrong end of a pair of shears . |
| 10 | In Europe terrorist groups were bombing capitalist targets ; in London psychologists were saying you had to live your own life in your own way and not according to your family , or you 'd go mad . |
| 11 | Or you 'd go down the er out to Barton and down the side of Armand up and back again . |
| 12 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 13 | He had said to the clergyman that opportunity would n't knock , but you never knew and you definitely had to keep your spirits up or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 14 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 15 | And that 's true you know Lindsey 's far too old for her age or you 'd think she was o she er oh she was like Andrea |
| 16 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 17 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |
| 18 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 19 | It ca n't be all that strong or you 'd have arrested him by now . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You have to laugh or you 'd cry . |
| 21 | You do n't know so much yet , or you 'd know that wise people do n't mock what they do n't understand ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe you really have lost your memory or you 'd know I would n't fall for that . |
| 23 | ‘ You had to be able to play a lot of different things in the clubs or you 'd get killed ! |
| 24 | He probably thought a financial adviser was someone who told you to hand over the wallet or you 'd get your throat cut . |
| 25 | If you have any questions about our curry powders , or you 'd like a copy of our booklet on Indian cooking , send a first class stamp to ‘ The Indian Kitchen ’ |
| 26 | If at the end of three months you decide that this is too elaborate for you or you 'd like to , if you need to see a week at a glance , er , you just call my office , send back the pages you have n't used , and we would exchange those er , for the equivalent in a different format . |
| 27 | ‘ So this William is probably not much younger than you , or you 'd remember seeing him around . ’ |