Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 2 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 3 | And the one thing I could never do as a viewer of ’ University Challenge ’ I could never answer the questions . |
| 4 | Wish I 'd met her ten , twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male . |
| 5 | Mind you , I s'pose I could always return as a newt … |
| 6 | Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge . |
| 7 | Abbado is also a joy , and Barenboim I would now count as a personal friend . |
| 8 | I want to be helpful , although I shall not stand as a referee between the two Front Bench teams . |
| 9 | There are certain things I wo n't do as a manager . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 12 | Sobbing , Pc Kelly said : ‘ The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 13 | With what I can only describe as a cavalier disregard for the obligations of a good employer , the right hon. Gentleman issued a statement which said : ’ Mr. Kaufman completely disagrees with the article ’ — which , as I said , stated in every respect the Labour party 's policy , in so far as it is comprehensible , as now stated . |
| 14 | I found myself heading into what I can only describe as a ‘ ton-up ’ tide . |
| 15 | The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 16 | Erm looking across from the Arms , one can see that , what I can only describe as a delightful bit of architecture , erm perhaps I 'm a little bit er of a philistine , but er I think it 's one of the nicest , most attractive buildings in the town . |
| 17 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 18 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 20 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 21 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 22 | Stuff you could n't do as a drummer because you would have to follow the snare drum at the same time |
| 23 | Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh . |
| 24 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 25 | As well as first-rate training and the chance to gain nationally recognised qualifications in your chosen field , you will also train as a seaman or commando , adding skills and self-discipline to your professional achievements . |
| 26 | You might make quick money , but you wo n't survive as a sharedealer . |
| 27 | We may therefore propose as a specialization of our grounding formula : |
| 28 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 29 | As early as the 1740s , scholars had deployed what we would now recognise as a valid historical methodology for questioning the veracity of scriptural accounts . |
| 30 | Erm , quality of print paper down the print shop does have to be checked so they may well use as a guide but they wo n't necessarily go thorough all the cost estimates . |