Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Friend , I embrace you as I would like to have done on the day you left . |
| 2 | Ana may confide in you as she would never confide in me . |
| 3 | Sitting down beside her , Michele pulled her on to his knee , cradling her as one would a child . |
| 4 | He left the sentence unfinished , reaching for her as she would have retaken her seat , drawing her into his arms before she had realised his intention . |
| 5 | ‘ Treat her as you would treat an amnesiac . ’ |
| 6 | But doctors at Airedale Hospital , Nr Keighley , West Yorkshire were obliged by law to treat him as they would any other patient . |
| 7 | Bingham ca n't take his eyes off Ali ; the still life of his friend , tethered so completely , seems as incomprehensible to him as it would to others who followed the radiated glow of Ali 's invulnerability . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the tears sprang from his eyes and nose and his body shook as with an ague , Mick put his arms about him and , pulling him round , cradled him as he would a child , saying , ‘ There ! |
| 10 | He spoke to him as he would to his own son , undeferentially , as one adult to another . |
| 11 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 12 | Teaching about computers is important , both technically and from the role they 're going to have in the children 's lives , but as I have said before the main interest , from an educational point of view , is using it as one would use a video tape or an overhead projector or a blackboard and a piece of chalk . |
| 13 | Other mares will tolerate , boss , or defer to it as they would to the mother herself . |
| 14 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |
| 15 | The few jobs that are available are so poorly paid that the few who are offered such employment can not afford to take it as they would n't be able to afford the rent on their new homes . |
| 16 | He imagined it as it would be , centred in red and gold on a black flag , high on a standard , waving in the wind over the stadiums where they would hold their rallies , a symbol of a proud and new Germany , the Fatherland in its true glory . |
| 17 | This was probably the saving of it as it would most likely have disappeared by now . |
| 18 | The restoration enables visitors to see it as it would have been in use in good running order but not ‘ as new ’ . |
| 19 | Treat it as you would any other wood by extensive pre-soaking and rinsing — perhaps boiling . |
| 20 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 21 | First nominate your target and turn the gun to face it as you would a cannon . |
| 22 | The wheelchair provides the ideal type of support , as the patient can not lean on it as he would on a walking frame , because the chair would tip up . |
| 23 | Treat it as he would any ordinary issue and any ordinary criminal . |
| 24 | She was not familiar with the type , but she recognized it when she saw it as she would have recognized the Eiffel Tower . |
| 25 | She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that . |
| 26 | She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that . |
| 27 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 28 | I mean there 's a whole range of exclamations that , bless me , or bless me as we would say . |
| 29 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 30 | But the threat of sanctions imposed by the United Nations is at the back of his mind , ‘ We have discussed it and it is of great personal interest to me as I would n't have a job . |