Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't admit to being a politician , or the proprietor will kick you out . |
| 2 | He had to open his mind or the dragon would destroy him . |
| 3 | Either Mr Putt settle his long-standing and substantial account , or the tailor would take him to the debtor 's court . |
| 4 | But they had to be , she knew , or the relationship would destroy them . |
| 5 | CBS or the BBC might say we made a mistake , but CNN never say we made a mistake , they just keep cranking it out . |
| 6 | His troupe would perform severely abbreviated melodramas ( a favourite was Dr Faustus , or the Devil Will Have His Own ) and pantomimes , as described here by CD . |
| 7 | Or the gods would kill one ? ’ |
| 8 | Well the they 'd , then they 'd sew it on to the calico or the firm would do it for 'em . |
| 9 | And also the boss or the supervisors would treat you badly if you were active in our union . |
| 10 | Anyway , life must go on or the terrorists will terrorise us into changed patterns of living , bastards that they are . |
| 11 | Proceedings by a tenant for a new tenancy must be commenced not less than two months nor more than four months of the date of the original notice or the tenant will lose his rights under the Act , and this limitation of time is absolute . |
| 12 | Huy hoped that when he died it would be in the desert or on the river , so that the vultures or the crocodiles would take him . |
| 13 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 14 | It 's just the works like a trade union thing , they sit down and the management 'll tell them , or the workforce 'll say what about this , that and the other |
| 15 | As such , they are part of an extremely ancient tradition for Assyrian mothers who used to scare recalcitrant children with the scarecrow Narses ; and a warning widely repeated today is very similar : ‘ You 'd better do as I say , or the boogeyman will get you . ’ |
| 16 | Either the purchaser will buy the relevant assets of the division direct from the vendor or the vendor will transfer its assets into a new company before selling the shares in that company . |
| 17 | We do n't do it once a year — we do it all year round — wherever the town councillors or the Abbot will pay us to put on a show . ’ |
| 18 | They quickly extinguished any hopes , or fears , that anybody else in the Cabinet or the party would divert them . |
| 19 | The best man or the groom can end his speech with a toast to the hosts , and the bride 's father or mother , or both , can reply . |
| 20 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 21 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 22 | Suppose we set up some small group scenes about neighbours arguing , trying to resolve a dispute ( it could be open-ended , up to the children to sort out the " back story " or the teacher could prescribe it — a barking dog in one house and loud music late at night in the other ) . |
| 23 | For there is no mention of how capitalism or the consumer can play their proper roles in determining the future of genetic engineering . |
| 24 | The same kinds of symptom may be present throughout , or the disorder may manifest itself in different forms at different life stages , perhaps as conduct disorder or delinquency in childhood , but in adulthood as alcoholism or even schizophrenia . |
| 25 | Or the project will test their understanding of why it is particularly bad to break a promise . |
| 26 | No one in the developing world or the ODA will forget her great contribution . |
| 27 | Kerr deplores the invasion of privacy in small houses , where visitors rub shoulders with the tradespeople , where the sounds of the scullery can be heard in the dining-room , where the kitchen can hear what goes on in the drawing-room , and the dresser or cooking-range may be seen in the kitchen . |
| 28 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 29 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
| 30 | Their funding has allowed the community to set up a health clinic where the families can bring their children for the sort of check ups we in Britian take for granted . |