Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 4 | She was a woman alone , making as best she might a terrible virtue of her solitude . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
| 8 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 15 | A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety . |
| 16 | As the majority of the words would be shorter than this , there would a large amount of wasted space . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 21 | ‘ Talking about future projects , there will an inter-reactive CD-ROM which we 're putting together . |
| 22 | People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car . |
| 23 | Well they might a little bit later then . |
| 24 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 25 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
| 26 | Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time . |
| 27 | I 'm actually also hoping to get , someone who was erm concerned at the campaign to come to the meeting , cos I think it would be very useful to have someone who 's been through it and to say how , how they tackled it , so I think it should an interesting meeting , hopefully we 'll get a few , you know interesting people to come along and we can spend from that meeting campaign . |
| 28 | He took her hand in his and stroked it gently , as he might an unhappy child 's . |
| 29 | He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’ |
| 30 | I think it will a long way , but you 're quite to draw it to us , and to ask us to set out on that road . |