Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] 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 | And you 'll a road going that way overlap |
| 11 | At Paraparaumu near Wellington you could a Cessna 150 for $90 ( £27.30 ) an hour solo . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 17 | Damon rubbed Lee 's stomach with his foot the way you would a dog 's and Lee screamed because it tickled . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | To answer this question you will a need to give the Minitab command TABLE a third argument . |
| 21 | You ca n't house-train it as you can a cat . |
| 22 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well you can a bag or oh |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 27 | Why , do you think they 'll a paedophile or something ? |
| 28 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 29 | ‘ Firms look on maternity leave just as they would a skiing holiday . |
| 30 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |