Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 2 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he loved a horse better than he would a Rolls Royce ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I see if I can a few of erm one of those |
| 9 | Is it after cos I 'll a |
| 10 | Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 16 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | First nominate your target and turn the gun to face it as you would a cannon . |
| 22 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
| 23 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
| 24 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 25 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Head first mounting , as you would a wobbled bait , is obviously a better choice although if the wind is light the drift out may present the bait in an unnatural fashion . |
| 28 | You ca n't house-train it as you can a cat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |