Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I may a couple of queries Mr Chairman ? |
| 2 | I 'll a go . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In his will a testator had released his debtors from their debt . |
| 8 | I can a bit but |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Who should a woman of this age be taking her clothes off and demanding sex all the time ? " |
| 11 | And you 'll a road going that way overlap |
| 12 | At Paraparaumu near Wellington you could a Cessna 150 for $90 ( £27.30 ) an hour solo . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 18 | Damon rubbed Lee 's stomach with his foot the way you would a dog 's and Lee screamed because it tickled . |
| 19 | The disc contains a text file reader to enable you to page through the authors text file using indexes , just as you would a book . |
| 20 | If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having |
| 21 | Look across the ocean waves , who will a bill , I take you home Kathleen . |
| 22 | To answer this question you will a need to give the Minitab command TABLE a third argument . |
| 23 | You ca n't house-train it as you can a cat . |
| 24 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 25 | If you act for the seller of a building estate , even though it comprises no more than a dozen houses or flats , it will repay you to have printed as many documents as possible ( drafts and engrossments of conveyance or lease , contract , etc ) and to anticipate as far as you can a buyer 's preliminary requirements . |
| 26 | Well you can a bag or oh |
| 27 | Learning it type is a full business and I for one need a bit more to keep me interested . |
| 28 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 30 | Sitting down beside her , Michele pulled her on to his knee , cradling her as one would a child . |