Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , this is where I live , where I 'll always live . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | things that cause me blocking , bondage , fear , sin , shortcoming ( where I will sometimes need another 's help especially if they involve my past . |
| 8 | God help me , I hope I still do ’ — she clicked off the light — ’ where I can still find it . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are . |
| 11 | ‘ Or I might just stick 'em up . ’ |
| 12 | Or I 'll just go away . " |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ C'm on , you bloody twit , or I 'll bloody beat you to pulp ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Or I 'll never eat dim-sum with you again . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't let her in or I 'll never get any lunch . |
| 18 | I 'd better write that down or I 'll never remember it specially with er what comes next ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Give me a drop of water , only a drop , or I shall surely die . " |
| 23 | Give me a drop , only a drop , or I shall surely die ! " |
| 24 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 25 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 26 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 27 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 28 | Many more than either you or I will ever know about . |
| 29 | because otherwise you or I can only take your best estimate . |
| 30 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |