Example sentences of "[pers pn] would a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | First nominate your target and turn the gun to face it as you would a cannon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You would a Bosnia immediately , it would break up , send the U N in , look what it 's done in Bosnia . |
| 8 | You just load it as you would a program , stick it on your power drive and that 's it — full video capability . ’ |
| 9 | Damon rubbed Lee 's stomach with his foot the way you would a dog 's and Lee screamed because it tickled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Firms look on maternity leave just as they would a skiing holiday . |
| 14 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 15 | After they had eaten , Kalchu picked up Sigarup in his blanket , holding the limp body draped across his two forearms as he would a child . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Whenever he visited the O'Malleys he found himself secretly staring at her , letting his eyes roam over her full breasts and wide hips , gauging her breeding possibilities as he would a heifer at a fair . |
| 18 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 19 | The dog gripped and shook , as he would a rat . |
| 20 | And he loved a horse better than he would a Rolls Royce ! |
| 21 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 22 | It may see a man as it would a stallion , and regard him as the Big Boss . |
| 23 | The dog sees you as challenging its perceived dominance in the family arena , and may well turn on you when threatened , in the same way that it would a rival pack member which does not back down in the wild . |