Example sentences of "what you might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 2 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 3 | But , like , you do n't know what you might have prevented ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 4 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 5 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't what you might think . |
| 7 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 9 | ‘ We are looking at what you might loosely call superloos . |
| 10 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 11 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 12 | The treatment techniques we describe are not a treatment programme as such : they are examples of what you might see the patient doing , with explanations of what the physiotherapist is trying to achieve , and how the patient should respond . |
| 13 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 14 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 15 | K. M. Bribes were n't what you might call rife . |
| 16 | On the telephone it is easier ( though not necessarily easy ) to be firm , to say what you might not have the courage to say face-to-face . |
| 17 | W. R. Parzynski and P. W. Zipse 's Introduction to Mathematical Analysis makes a better job than most , and it does it all in the right order , from special to general , what you might call the Reverse Bourbaki Gambit . |
| 18 | So before as a gallant young man you decide to go dragon slaying , on 23 April , just pause to think about what you might be chasing . |
| 19 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 20 | If you are unsure of what you might change or there is clearly no one correct answer then place the emphasis on doing nothing until you are thoroughly familiar with the set up . |
| 21 | Below are a list of places where you might see Japlish written , and two alternatives for what you might see there . |
| 22 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 23 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 24 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 25 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 27 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |
| 28 | You are afraid and full of excitement at thoughts of what you might find . |
| 29 | Manager Howard Wilkinson admitted : ‘ You dare n't think about what it means — if you do that you end up thinking about what you might lose . |
| 30 | Yesterday , Friday , a Rollercoaster day-off , Curve , Ed Sirrs , myself and PR Phil went on what you might — in a Curve piece — call a bender . |