Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 32 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 33 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 34 | The answer must be an emphatic and joyful ‘ yes ’ ; Greener than you or I will ever be ! |
| 35 | Many more than either you or I will ever know about . |
| 36 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 37 | because otherwise you or I can only take your best estimate . |
| 38 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 39 | ‘ Or I could simply beat you until the blood runs . |
| 40 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 41 | Otherwise if erm if you desperately need us sort of thing if you ring the vicarage and then you can erm Alison or somebody will probably be in and come round for |
| 42 | Well I 'll I 'll fax it first thing in the morning on Monday right or somebody will so you can get it y'know we just need to monitor it for a week and that 's it . |
| 43 | Secondly , I wanted to create a factory where nobody would ever have to do any physical work . |
| 44 | It is difficult , however , to accept the concept of work which is non-profit-making or which may even cost the providing employer a substantial amount of on-going revenue funds , and until now there has been a great reluctance to fund such initiatives . |
| 45 | So you trace the , the , the , in other words the day 's residue becomes just part of the associations which leads back often to things which did n't necessarily happen today , or which may even have happened in the past . |
| 46 | AND the Landlord hereby warrants to the Tenant that it has disclosed to the Tenant details of all Restrictions affecting the Premises known ( or which ought reasonably be known ) to the Landlord as at the date hereof Clause 10.2 should commence : |
| 47 | The tendency to translate English passive structures literally into a variety of target languages which either have no passive voice as such or which would normally use it with less frequency is often criticized by linguists and by those involved in training translators . |
| 48 | Field barns were built to serve land lying some distance from the farmstead , or which could only be reached from it by way of steep hills . |
| 49 | It is the same as the clinical mercury thermometer which one reads directly , or which can now present its reading electronically . |
| 50 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 51 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 52 | The appointment , as Lovat advised , ‘ would give him the rank of Lieut. & you could easily afterwards get him out of our companys to a marching reg[imen]t either as lieut[enant] or captain ’ . |
| 53 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 54 | In particular the special garden for the blind was her favourite , where she would gently rub the sweet-scented leaves and herbs and flowers between her fingers and recall their names — the names she knew so well from the allotment we had had in South Shields . |
| 55 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 56 | Where she need never think of him again . |
| 57 | Afterwards she will speak on the party 's policy for women at Darlington Arts Centre , where she will also launch Labour 's Woman Today magazine . |
| 58 | The technique in Scale 1 is to fuel the recluse 's imaginative understanding of a condition where she can freely maximise her spiritual potential and , at the same time , promote the discipline which allows her to do so . |
| 59 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 60 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |