Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 B-but I dare say you would n't like it .
2 ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’
3 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 ?
4 Take lots of care , & I 'll phone sometime soon
5 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 .
6 Or I might contract warts .
7 The description may be more precise than you or I might offer but it is a description for all that .
8 Or I might give the job to someone else . ’
9 Off you go now — and behave yourself , or I might feel obliged to tell a certain Whitechapel widow-woman where she can put her none-too-gentle hands on you . ’
10 Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do .
11 Or I might go bankrupt . ’
12 Or I might go telling that young man where you found your young Miracle-Worker .
13 ‘ I know it sounds absurd , but please do it for me or I might go out of my mind again , and really smash the living daylights out of him ! ’
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’
17 ‘ Patrick weighed 8lb 7oz — ‘ I 'm lucky he was a big baby , or I might have ended up having him even more quickly .
18 look , you 're going to have it on the floor , will you hold it up straight please or I might have to scream , shall I scream ? , it 's alright Richard he did n't spill any
19 I want no more fighting or I might have to fight what shall I do with you ?
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months .
22 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 .
23 Or I might say , Is n't he .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Whatever you or I might wish , history tells us this-that nothing is eternal .
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 Or I might get some card and stick to it .
28 Do n't you dare tell her either , Sally , or I 'll kill you ! ’
29 ‘ Keep moving , ’ he said , ‘ or I 'll blow your fucking kidneys out . ’
30 ‘ Tell me or I 'll blow your fucking head off . ’
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