Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | B-but I dare say you would n't like it . |
2 | Be responsible to your community or dey will get ya |
3 | A fighter has to have power behind him or nothing will ever happen and that has been my trouble , ’ admits Boucher . |
4 | But we must own it and feel comfortable with it or nothing will happen . |
5 | In all other areas it either was not an issue or nothing could be arranged . |
6 | The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel . |
7 | The buyer as well as the seller will often have documents to sign ; for example , if the transfer or other document contains covenants by the buyer ( to observe restrictions or to erect a fence , or on a joint purchase ) the document vesting the property in him , her or them will require execution . |
8 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | Take lots of care , & I 'll phone sometime soon |
11 | If not then I 'll plead to my wife for the car & I 'll be able to offer other people a lift there ( but I 'll be coming back on Sunday ) . |
12 | If it is only — or mainly — accommodation problems which stop you repeating the year , Grandad & I would like you to know that you are welcome to live here & go to Oban High School . |
13 | He lay in bed , hoping the phone would go away or someone would answer it . |
14 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
15 | ‘ It 's just that , well , I thought Sacco or someone would be up here . ’ |
16 | Something , something or someone will get to it . |
17 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
18 | Or I might contract warts . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | I might not reach the telephone , or I might be unable to dial a number , the doctor might be out … . |
21 | ‘ Or I might not . |
22 | The tent might blow away , I might get bitten by a snake , or I might not be able to pay back the £1,500 I had borrowed to finance the trip . |
23 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
26 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
27 | ‘ But see that yer behave yerselves in future , or I might . ’ |
28 | Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’ |
29 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
30 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |