Example sentences of "as [indef pn] might [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 2 | I looked at the sky , as one might on feeling a spot of rain , and saw the red dust-clouds of a storm in the east . |
| 3 | There was no other option as the Hurseys live in a known highrisk parvovirus area and carrying around a Great Dane puppy in a blanket to acclimatise him to street life — as one might with Yorkshire terrier pup — is hardly practical AND needs a very large owner ! |
| 4 | To take just two other segments , Hayzen says that the ‘ Awaken ’ segment is not so favoured as one might at first think , because rivals may chip away at one 's profits by undercutting product prices . |
| 5 | By repeating the name here , now redundant information , Leon behaves rather as one might in producing a character profile . |