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Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’
2	Or I might give the job to someone else . ’
3	‘ Or I 'll miss the last bus .
4	Do exactly as I say or I 'll cover the mattress with your brains , understand me ? ’
5	‘ Now be off , or I 'll set the Romans on ye . ’
6	‘ Just stop what you 're doing or I 'll set the police on you . ’
7	You must n't ever try to talk to me about her or I 'll leave the home . ’
8	‘ Get inside , the lot of you , or I 'll call the police , ’ shouted the prebendary , foaming at the mouth .
9	Go away or I 'll call the police . ’
10	‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’
11	‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’
12	‘ Open up in there , you lousy crook , or I 'll bust the door down . ’
13	So you listen , damn it , or I 'll get the next plane out , and leave you to cope with the whole bloody lot . ’
14	‘ Anyway , ’ he said , closing the book , ‘ I suppose I 'd better get on with my work now or I 'll get the sack .
15	Like sparks or I 'll have the hide off you . ’
16	‘ I 'd best get what 's left of my milk on the road , or I 'll have the Guv'nor after me .
17	‘ Or I 'll have the ale-masters down here ! ’
18	Or I 'll have the supervisor after me . ’
19	Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever .
20	Or I should say the wee imp ran into me .
21	Or I will call the captain ! ’
22	I can cover the front of the house , or I can cover the back .
23	I think I think I go back to this point about I think in concept anyway I 'm not happy about er a proposition that er that function is performed or I can see the disadvantages significant disadvantages in having the traffic er for both the A sixty one er and the A fifty nine c and its links into Harrogate and Knaresborough , concentrated on that er on on inner northern line .
24	Or I can superimpose the green one
25	Or I could tell the story behind the papers , a chronology in which I described the sequence of experiments as we actually conducted them .
26	I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it .
27	Nevertheless , such is human weakness and the pull of gluttony that when no one was about , or I could ride the chiding of my family , I would creep into the kitchen , cut a slice of butter and then find a crumb or two to go with it .
28	So that if somebody come in to call , they 'd pull this thing and then Mr or somebody would open the the sliding door and you see .
29	I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so
30	In order to minimise doubts as to its scope , Article 1(3) makes it clear that certain matters which are either dealt with in other Conventions , or which might involve the exercise of the Court 's discretion , such as the service of process , the enforcement of judgments and orders , and orders for provisional or protective measures , are excluded .