Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " 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 | ‘ It 's a good thing for you I 'm driving or I might just show you whose woman you really are . |
| 3 | ‘ Or I might just stick 'em up . ’ |
| 4 | Or I 'll just go away . " |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ C'm on , you bloody twit , or I 'll bloody beat you to pulp ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Or I 'll never eat dim-sum with you again . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't let her in or I 'll never get any lunch . |
| 10 | I 'd better write that down or I 'll never remember it specially with er what comes next ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Give me a drop of water , only a drop , or I shall surely die . " |
| 15 | Give me a drop , only a drop , or I shall surely die ! " |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 18 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 19 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 20 | Many more than either you or I will ever know about . |
| 21 | because otherwise you or I can only take your best estimate . |
| 22 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 23 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 24 | ‘ Or I could simply beat you until the blood runs . |
| 25 | It is difficult , however , to accept the concept of work which is non-profit-making or which may even cost the providing employer a substantial amount of on-going revenue funds , and until now there has been a great reluctance to fund such initiatives . |
| 26 | So you trace the , the , the , in other words the day 's residue becomes just part of the associations which leads back often to things which did n't necessarily happen today , or which may even have happened in the past . |
| 27 | The tendency to translate English passive structures literally into a variety of target languages which either have no passive voice as such or which would normally use it with less frequency is often criticized by linguists and by those involved in training translators . |
| 28 | It is the same as the clinical mercury thermometer which one reads directly , or which can now present its reading electronically . |
| 29 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 30 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |