Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 2 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 3 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 4 | They identify people who need counselling help and may refer them to the priest or minister ; they recognize their own rituals as important aids to grieving . |
| 5 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 6 | The 1919 Murray 's Handbook asked in a revealing suggestion that travellers should watch out for instances when third-class passengers were not treated considerately and should report them to the management . |
| 7 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the worst thing for a hangover and could put you on the slippery slope to alcoholism , ’ warns the magazine . |
| 9 | All of these comments might be qualities which we refuse to see in ourselves , and could guide us along the path towards self-discovery . |
| 10 | Labour says that it will reverse every step that the Government have taken to protect businesses , and would leave them to the mercy of Labour 's own local councils . |
| 11 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 12 | Their toisech would greet them , in his cone helmet with its metal nose-guard and his tunic of ring-mail over leather , and would lead them to the wing of the army commanded by my lord Ferteth , their Mormaer , and my lord Gillecrist , the Mormaer for Lennox and Strathclyde . |
| 13 | The ANC 's chief spokesman , Pallo Jordan , said that the ANC welcomed the agreement and would observe it to the letter . |
| 14 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 15 | There was a confused position and Baldwin was entitled to continue until the oppositions could show that they could and would defeat him in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | It was risky — the sentry would be sure to hear their horse as it picked up speed — but crossing the dangerous waters of the Severn at night was riskier , and would point them in the wrong direction for Winchester . |
| 17 | She was a policewoman of sorts , and would arrest him on the spot . |
| 18 | Well aware of English fears , Napoleon III decided that a joint Anglo-French approach to the problems of the Near East would be popular in Britain and would provide him with the lever he sought to hoist France into place in the European system . |
| 19 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |
| 20 | As early as January 1961 a US Department of State report on Cuba argued that ‘ Castro , aware of [ growing discontent within Cuba ] and of the lack of decisive support by the Soviet countries is endeavouring , through his acts of provocation , to create a crisis against Cuba that will compel the Soviets to support him and will restore him to the position of anti-imperialist hero in the eyes of his own people and the Latin American masses ’ ( US Declassified , 1982 , 001697 ) . |
| 21 | He will have to argue , with all the ruthlessness he can muster , that evolution will betray the English part of the Labour party and will confine it to the periphery of British politics , rendering a future Labour government less likely . |
| 22 | Your Clubrep will , as ever , be on hand to ensure everyone makes the most of their trip and will point you in the right direction for the sights , beaches and tavernas/bars of each island . |
| 23 | A happy team will perform more confidently and will communicate it to the audience . |
| 24 | ‘ He came through a 90 minute practice match behind closed doors in midweek and will help us at the back . |
| 25 | These can help us in making assignments and can tell us about the vibrations of molecular ions . |
| 26 | Much more important is that the student is aware of the general principles of that particular area of law , has acquired the proper technique for finding out the specific rules and can apply them to the facts of the case . |
| 27 | Which is more , but let's face it at the moment wears out as it grows older does n't it ? |