Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 2 | As I walked across the gravel to the colonnade , where I could see Conchis was already sitting , his back to me , I decided on a course of action — or rather , of reaction . |
| 3 | Go and put away your work and tidy your drawer immediately , or I 'll tell Miss Scatcherd ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now , do n't try and wriggle out of it or I 'll send Vittorio round to see you . |
| 5 | ‘ Jack , would you for God 's sake shut up or I 'll get Amy Winship and Joe Reynolds to come and deal with you ! ’ |
| 6 | Speak up , girl , or I 'll have Roberts throw you out . " |
| 7 | Maybe whoever buys the house will set her up again where she can see Narcissus — and much good did that ever do the poor girl . ’ |
| 8 | Well if unfortunately you do n't go where you 'll have Manda to join , you know , if you want to , if there 's things you wan na go to . |
| 9 | I asked him — I told him ‘ Shut up or you 'll wake Cathy too ’ and he got madder — he — he thinks — he says I keep them awake so — so — so I do n't have to go to bed with him . ’ |
| 10 | Shut up now , or you 'll wake Doyle . ’ |
| 11 | Or you can contact Oxfam UK ( 274 Banbury Road , Oxford , OX2 7DZ ) and get their Cambodia Information Pack which will give you background on the situation and advice on what questions to ask evasive politicians . |
| 12 | Or you could try Pollen-B tablets — from health stores . |
| 13 | Or you could use Caroline 's oilskins . ’ |
| 14 | Or she can ring Ariane Judet on 0865 313133 . |
| 15 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a section for Women 's Art and Industries , or we could see Royle 's Self-Pouring Teapot . |
| 17 | That gives them the chance for promotion to the British League , where they could face Swindon and Milton Keynes . |
| 18 | That gives them the chance for promotion to the British League , where they could face Swindon and Milton Keynes . |
| 19 | It was at Macclesfield on Friday that Colchester clinched their place in the Vauxhall FA Trophy final , where they will meet Witton Albion at Wembley on Sunday May 10 . |
| 20 | In the women 's event Holcombe Brook from Bury , led by Russian pairing Svetlana Parkhomenko and Natalia Egorova , beat Banbury West End 8–7 on sets to reach next Saturday 's final where they will play Winchester . |
| 21 | Doyle made his way through the crowded , smoky billiard hall , towards the bar at the end , where he could see Bodie nonchalantly sipping a coke . |
| 22 | Apple Computer Inc has lost Roger Heinen , head manager of the Macintosh Software Architecture Division , responsible for Macintosh System 7 , to Microsoft Corp , where he will become VP Database and Development Tools . |
| 23 | Not to put too fine a point on it , this was his love-nest where he used to bring Lucia . ’ |
| 24 | Then it will start looking in C : \DOS , where it will find PRINT.EXE . |
| 25 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 26 | It expects to be the first constituency in the country to declare a result , it may be the first Liberal Democrat gain , or it may elect Britain 's first black Tory MP . |
| 27 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 28 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 29 | Monica , 44 , said : ‘ I know that nothing can bring Alan back but for me no sentence that our courts are allowed to impose could ever be enough . |
| 30 | and I mean I have done several since I left the Scottish Office as well which is quite good and I thought that I might put Sandy at his ease by telling a couple of amusing incidents that have happened post the Scottish Office days |