Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 2 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 3 | Children who behave well at school but badly at home may be responding to family tensions , or they may find it easier to accept discipline in the more formal atmosphere of a school . |
| 4 | The family may encourage independence , or they may stifle it ; the individual may rise to the challenge , but may equally be overcome with bitterness and despair . |
| 5 | But other couples will either find a way through and re-negotiate their relationship to allow for the different people that they 've now become , or they may shelve them because they get caught up in the , the very busyness of life , what we call the , the productivity phase , which is the third phase , where couples are maybe having children , building up a family , building up careers ; they 're involved in that sort of activity . |
| 6 | Or they might decide they want to learn how to read , that they want information about birth control , or advice about getting rid of a caique ( local boss ) . |
| 7 | Erm or they might tell you the angle . |
| 8 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 9 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 10 | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day . |
| 11 | When feeding your dogs do n't hand them their meat or they might take it from your elbow down . |
| 12 | Travellers might get used to jet-lag in the sense that they learn to live with it , or they might find it progressively more irksome as their initial excitement with travel begins to wear thin . |
| 13 | ‘ It says , ‘ ’ Please do n't tether any horses to this roof , or they 'll pull it off' ’ , ' translated Luke . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes and loud and clear on the Saint or they 'll give you a ticket for Cincinnati and it would be months before your next of kin were informed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't start that nonsense again or they 'll carry you off to the funny farm , ’ Otley said wearily . |
| 16 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 17 | Or they 'll keep him in London . |
| 18 | or something or they 'll say you know is it any good they 'll say , Oh it 's really wicked . |
| 19 | Or they 'll push you under a subway train or force feed you kiwi fruit whatever the new thing is this week . |
| 20 | ‘ And do , for heavens ’ sake , be watchful or they 'll suspect us of collusion . ’ |
| 21 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 22 | They say they will have the prisoners or they 'll cut you down . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But you 'd better go and check the car , or they 'll have it stripped . ’ |
| 24 | No oh no they or they would dump it in a place where nobody would see it you see . |
| 25 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 26 | Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call . |
| 27 | The natives insisted he burn the book or they would attack him . |
| 28 | He dare n't go back or they would see him . |
| 29 | Or they would rob them or threaten to execute them . |
| 30 | Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership . |