Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] would [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , to me , of course , you are — or I would n't be here to begin with — Jewish . |
| 2 | you know that awful viral thing that 's going around and I meant to be pass the infectious now , or I would n't be here with you . |
| 3 | You obviously know who I am or you would n't be here . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you must think so , or you would n't be here . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And yet you must still believe in marriage , ’ she realised , ‘ or you would n't be so disgusted by the way I 'm supposed to have come between Florian and his wife . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're drunk , ’ said Harvey , ‘ or you would n't be so corny . ’ |
| 7 | " You are already forgiven , my children , or you would not be here . |
| 8 | Or you would not be here . |
| 9 | ‘ We are still within the amateur regulations or we would n't be here , ’ Grant Fox , the All Black outside-half , said yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously there 's something or we would n't be here . |
| 11 | We were able to do the hall or we 'd still be nowhere with it , only because of a donation of thirty thousand pounds quite out of the blue , from the London Glassworkers ' Company which meant we did n't expect it . |
| 12 | That was also the political judgment of the terrorists , or they would not be so anxious to be interviewed by the media or so against the ban . |
| 13 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 14 | Burun wanted something , or he would not be here . |
| 15 | ‘ And I would n't be back here now if my dad had n't died . ’ |
| 16 | This year , the decks have been cleared and I would n't be anywhere else . |
| 17 | ‘ Had Inverclyde had a policy of installing smoke detectors , and had this house been fitted with them , you and I would not be here today talking about this . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd written all these books about sex and I thought he 'd know all these exciting things and I 'd just be so ordinary . |
| 19 | and I 'd still be there |
| 20 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 21 | [ … ] nowhere , except Paris , is it performed better than here , and you would doubtless be well instructed to see me sometimes beat time [ battre la mesure ] and give the tempos [ mouvemens ] with Lully 's famous stick [ canne ] . |
| 22 | It would not be damp and she would not be so weary . |
| 23 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 24 | So they go on like this till they get to late adolescence and then they can have a reasonably normal diet , having said that , they need constant monitoring and they would also be very used to a diet with not very much of milk , egg , fish and cheese etcetera . |
| 25 | More front than Margate they 'd say in nearby Deptford Market , and they would n't be far wrong . |
| 26 | He would receive two-dimensional light signals that had travelled within the surface and he would not be directly aware of any curvature . |
| 27 | Oh I remember , I remember thinking cos he said that he was gon na be away , and he would n't be here on Tuesday , so he goes . |
| 28 | If he told her she might go straight back and he would n't be home for hours . |
| 29 | " Lloyd George would secure a greater hold on the rank and file of our party and he would also be so dependent on that party after the election that he would permanently be driven into the same attitude towards our Party which Chamberlain was placed in before , with this difference — that he would be the leader of it . |
| 30 | But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture . |