Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You know could be I 'll I 'll a large part of it may I do n't know whether all of it but a large part of it will be here 's the English for you know that sort of thing .
2 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 .
3 I see if I can a few of erm one of those
4 Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action .
5 She was a woman alone , making as best she might a terrible virtue of her solitude .
6 A middle-class female psychologist , studying working-class women , affects these women differently from the way she would a middle-class female sample , where the investigation would be less powerfully connected with social surveillance and intervention .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb .
10 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush .
14 However , it will really be the New Moon on the 19th which provides you will a new romantic interest and just as long as you do n't try to manipulate , control or dominate , you could well be on cloud nine .
15 Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture .
16 Well we could a continued it for erm , well I du n no , but erm it was getting a bit out of hand with the picket line really , cos there was a lot of these youngsters who were n't prepared to do these picket line .
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse .
20 A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety .
21 there must a tremendous
22 There should a widely-drawn ‘ basic ’ summary offence of unauthorised entry into a computer system , an aggravated offence of unauthorised entry with intent to commit or assist in serious crime , and a further serious offence of altering computer-held data or programs .
23 As the majority of the words would be shorter than this , there would a large amount of wasted space .
24 For at the first time thou findest but a darkness and , as it were , a cloud of unknowing , thou knowest not what , save that thou feelest in thy will a naked intent unto God .
25 The London Taxi Drivers ' Association says that from 8pm on Christmas Eve to Boxing Day morning there will a standard £2 extra on every cab fare .
26 At the end of each evening there will a special prize draw in which you can win Good Food Club annual memberships , cheeseboards , Zanussi cool bags and storage containers and Tupperware cheese graters .
27 People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car .
28 Well they might a little bit later then .
29 Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ?
30 He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government .
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