Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I may a couple of queries Mr Chairman ? |
| 2 | Is it after cos I 'll a |
| 3 | You paying me in 'and , and Dennis is paying me in 'and and I 'll a er , thousand pound a week , the way that I keep getting these job offers . |
| 4 | I 'll a go . |
| 5 | Er , tut , erm , I 'll a , I 'll do the ironing today , I might as well get it all out the way |
| 6 | You know could be I 'll I 'll a large part of it may I do n't know whether all of it but a large part of it will be here 's the English for you know that sort of thing . |
| 7 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 9 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 10 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 11 | Sir Peter Walters , a former chairman of BP who now heads Midland Bank and Blue Circle , kept a row of management books behind his desk in Britannic House , but says he read them ‘ primarily for entertainment , rather as I would a novel ’ . |
| 12 | In his will a testator had released his debtors from their debt . |
| 13 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 14 | And I want to make if I can a couple of deeper coloured cushions and if I can I want to make tie-backs for the curtains because everything in that room is so blooming pale . |
| 15 | I see if I can a few of erm one of those |
| 16 | I can a bit but |
| 17 | She was a woman alone , making as best she might a terrible virtue of her solitude . |
| 18 | I suppose you might a very simple spreadsheet , then er , just adding up a column of numbers is hardly get that wrong . |
| 19 | And you 'll a road going that way overlap |
| 20 | At Paraparaumu near Wellington you could a Cessna 150 for $90 ( £27.30 ) an hour solo . |
| 21 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 22 | and I mean you could a B M er er a top of the range B M W for that . |
| 23 | A middle-class female psychologist , studying working-class women , affects these women differently from the way she would a middle-class female sample , where the investigation would be less powerfully connected with social surveillance and intervention . |
| 24 | I would suggest if anybody has this problem , they drill the heads off as you would a rivet , punch the nail in a little and fill in then with the appropriate filler . |
| 25 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 26 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 27 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |
| 28 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 29 | The need for this editing by copying , which requires the use of a second video machine , of course , is brought about because it is not possible to edit video tapes by physically cutting and rejoining them as you would a cine film or sound tape . |
| 30 | Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance . |