Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Stuff you could n't do as a drummer because you would have to follow the snare drum at the same time |
| 10 | But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy . |
| 11 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 12 | So , in a week that found Hooker registering his fourth UK album success , it could hardly come as a complete surprise to find ol' John Lee celebrating 43 years of chart activity by appearing on Top Of The Pops . |
| 13 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |