Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 A fighter has to have power behind him or nothing will ever happen and that has been my trouble , ’ admits Boucher .
2 The screw was only allowed to be effective where nothing could possibly be effected by its application .
3 The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal .
4 where I would headlong into the thing .
5 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear .
6 ‘ I mean , this is where I live , where I 'll always live . ’
7 If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family .
8 Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians .
9 He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’
10 things that cause me blocking , bondage , fear , sin , shortcoming ( where I will sometimes need another 's help especially if they involve my past .
11 God help me , I hope I still do ’ — she clicked off the light — ’ where I can still find it .
12 I could n't find a way round it and when someone came in and said , ‘ that sounds great , but can you get me a pure sound where I can actually recognise what guitar is being played , whether it 's clean or distorted ? ’
13 ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are .
14 Or I might just stick 'em up . ’
15 ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band .
16 Or I 'll just go away . "
17 I could go on , but that 's enough , or I 'll soon be babbling about lime trees and pétanque and eating bread dipped in rough red wine — what they call la soupe à perroquet , parrot soup .
18 ‘ C'm on , you bloody twit , or I 'll bloody beat you to pulp ! ’
19 you just shut it or I 'll so I will
20 ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work .
21 ‘ I 'll make her my wife , ’ he declared to himself , ‘ or I 'll never be able to concentrate on work again ! ’
22 Or I 'll never eat dim-sum with you again . ’
23 ‘ Do n't let her in or I 'll never get any lunch .
24 I 'd better write that down or I 'll never remember it specially with er what comes next ?
25 I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all .
26 Or I would still be flying between Siberia and eternity with nothing to listen to but ‘ Pretty in Pink ’ by The Psychedelic Furs .
27 The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known .
28 ‘ I had no idea , ’ she informed him earnestly , ‘ no idea at all what Rose had in mind , or I would never have gone with her .
29 Give me a drop of water , only a drop , or I shall surely die . "
30 Give me a drop , only a drop , or I shall surely die ! "
  Next page