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6 The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel .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 . ’
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