Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 3 | Or I might give the job to someone else . ’ |
| 4 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 5 | You tell me now , or I 'll pull every hair from your head ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Or I 'll miss the last bus . |
| 7 | Or I 'll go t' foot of our stairs . |
| 8 | Do exactly as I say or I 'll cover the mattress with your brains , understand me ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now be off , or I 'll set the Romans on ye . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just stop what you 're doing or I 'll set the police on you . ’ |
| 11 | Spend the day as you wish — but do n't go within a mile of Radcliffe or I 'll break every bone in his body . |
| 12 | You must n't ever try to talk to me about her or I 'll leave the home . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Get inside , the lot of you , or I 'll call the police , ’ shouted the prebendary , foaming at the mouth . |
| 14 | Go away or I 'll call the police . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Open up in there , you lousy crook , or I 'll bust the door down . ’ |
| 18 | So you listen , damn it , or I 'll get the next plane out , and leave you to cope with the whole bloody lot . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , closing the book , ‘ I suppose I 'd better get on with my work now or I 'll get the sack . |
| 20 | Can you switch the toaster off , put the pancake in or I 'll have a burnt pancake . |
| 21 | Like sparks or I 'll have the hide off you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd best get what 's left of my milk on the road , or I 'll have the Guv'nor after me . |
| 23 | ‘ Or I 'll have the ale-masters down here ! ’ |
| 24 | Or I 'll have the supervisor after me . ’ |
| 25 | As far as I am aware , there was good feeling between the candidates during the election , and I was somewhat surprised to read in Susan Crosland 's splendid biography of her husband that Roy Hattersley had told him I was angry that he was standing , and that he must give me his support before the first ballot or I would have no interest in him . |
| 26 | If there were some point under heated discussion , either he or I would write a letter to our own newspaper , using a Burmese pseudonym , and the other would answer it in the name of government . |
| 27 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 28 | ‘ Promise me , or I shall have no peace . ’ |
| 29 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
| 30 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |