Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may hold or attend press conferences to announce news or show a product range . |
| 2 | Whatever you may think or believe about my mother , you must understand that . ’ |
| 3 | Well , on top of the expense of maintaining the house and the car , you may want to continue any hobbies you may have or take more holidays . |
| 4 | Never believe anything else , whatever silly things you may read or hear elsewhere . |
| 5 | You may agree or disagree with these decisions ; the important thing is that we learn to appreciate the influence that the grammatical system of a language has on the way events are presented in that language . |
| 6 | You must isolate or note the bias and loading of words like " Tyranny " , " just " , " misguided " , " blame " . |
| 7 | The other says you should wash or hose off mud and then dry the area as thoroughly as possible . |
| 8 | It is invaluable to have a friend who can indicate to you by some private sign if you should raise or lower your voice . |
| 9 | If you can not get the leaflet you want you should call or write to : |
| 10 | If you can not get the leaflet you want you should call or write to : Age Concern England , Bernard Sunley House , 60 Pitcairn Road , Mitcham , Surrey CR4 3LL . |
| 11 | Whether you grow vegetables , summer bedding or an informal patch of wildflowers , you should compost or destroy dead leaves , exhausted plants , vegetable stumps and thinnings , for all these are favourite haunts of many harmful insects . |
| 12 | You might say or do something you 'll regret or feel foolish about in times to come . |
| 13 | You might say or do something you 'll regret or feel foolish about in times to come . |
| 14 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 15 | Love was n't something you could give or withhold at will . |
| 16 | If you have sporting experience or a special skill , you could coach or teach youth groups . |
| 17 | The units shown go to 6,000 gallons which represent a pond some 12′ × 14′ × 6′ deep ; effectively you could double or treble these up but they would be difficult to disguise . |
| 18 | I think you could obliterate or cut out easily — what do you think ? |
| 19 | The band put an easy beat through every tune , you could waltz or smooch or shuffle . |
| 20 | Things you could pick or catch . ’ |
| 21 | You could win or lose thousands at the races , etc . |
| 22 | At last the boy counted out sixpences and pennies onto the counter and picked up his final selection , an elephant mask with moulded plastic tusks of extreme sharpness and a foam-rubber trunk you could raise or lower by pulling a string . |
| 23 | So ask your building society what you could lose or gain from a remortgage . |
| 24 | So if you could precis or select from the text that you 've already prepared for the annual report , something that will go in there that says why your functions are |
| 25 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 26 | For example , you could jog or walk briskly for a mile or two for one exercise session ; use an exercise tape for another session ; and participate in something different like weight-training , or cycling , or a ball or racket game , for a third session in the week . |
| 27 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 28 | To start with you will try to note every phonetic variation but gradually your transcription will become " broader " , that is , you will realise or find out by systematic analysis that , for example , all the voiceless alveolar stops on the language are aspirated and therefore there is no need to keep writing [ th ] every time , [ t ] is enough . |
| 29 | Wait patiently and long enough at the start and the end of the day at different villus and you will see or hear most of Sri Lanka 's wildlife . |
| 30 | So I hope that you will agree or confirm the action that we 've taken in expressing those sorts of views . |