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