Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the gods would kill one ? ’ |
| 2 | And also the boss or the supervisors would treat you badly if you were active in our union . |
| 3 | Anyway , life must go on or the terrorists will terrorise us into changed patterns of living , bastards that they are . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 7 | ‘ 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 … |
| 8 | The purchaser and the vendors shall bear their own legal and other professional fees and costs and no such fees shall be charged to ABC or any of its subsidiaries other than has been provided for in the net assets at completion . |
| 9 | The purchaser and the vendors shall bear their own legal and other professional fees and costs and no such fees shall be charged to ABC or any of its subsidiaries other than has been provided for in the net assets at completion . |
| 10 | There are stories of men who go to bed drunk and the rats will take their lips or tongue . ’ |
| 11 | It would be too big and noisy and the teachers would hear him sawing during the night . |
| 12 | He suggested that , in those species , males might compete among themselves to determine which males mate with the females , and the females might choose which males of the species they would mate with . |
| 13 | Keepers hope he will establish his dominance over them and the females will choose him . |
| 14 | Borrowing and taxation were inseparably linked in these schemes , and the merchants would use their monopolistic powers to enrich themselves and ensure that sufficient cash was available to satisfy the king 's need for loans . |
| 15 | ‘ Where were they when we were running down U-boat alley ? ’ he used to demand , and the boys would shake their heads dutifully , and William with some embarrassment on account of being half American himself . |
| 16 | Local authorities are under a duty to provide a minimum of educational facilities and the courts will decide what this minimum is . |
| 17 | ‘ Our nannies must be paid at least 200 dollars net a week , have two days off , their own room and the families must pay their air fare , ’ said Ms Gallagher . |
| 18 | Lads 'll get on phone and the bobbies 'll stick it through computer . |
| 19 | ‘ Hush ; be still ; be silent ; and the Women may pass us by … ’ |
| 20 | Under the BG plan , the present central purchasing arrangements would be disbanded and the subsidiaries would make their own arrangements to buy supplies from North Sea producers . |
| 21 | The Collector had an unpleasant feeling that unless something unexpected happened he and the Sikhs would find themselves cut off … |
| 22 | Hand-reared birds can be put back in the nest once they can feed themselves , but if they 've become imprinted on a human , they may not respond properly to the other birds and the parents may reject them . |
| 23 | Both the social worker and the parents will see their problems as reasonable and paramount , and will view the problems as lying in the girl . |
| 24 | President Ben Ali marked the fourth anniversary of his accession to power ( Nov. 7 , 1987 ) by pardoning 1,070 people sentenced by civil and military courts ; 141 would be released and the others would have their sentences reduced . |
| 25 | At the same time , Toyota , Nissan and the others will find it hard to expand if they do not design their cars , and many of the parts contained in them , to meet local tastes and fashions . |
| 26 | The basic information collected and the procedures used to collect it were similar to those in the first survey ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 27 | And the police would do something dreadful to Oliver . |
| 28 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 29 | Russell had a white girlfriend and the police would approach her and call her ‘ nigger lover ’ . |
| 30 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |