Example sentences of "you might [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 2 | If travelling in a car , you might stop for a few minutes as a penalty , refusing to speak to the child until he behaves . |
| 3 | It is of course very difficult to predict all the uses you might make of a new technology until you have had time to experiment with it , so the same golden rule applies to recording as to playback : start small with a basic system to which you can add . |
| 4 | ( c ) Try to link together the scattered specific observations you might make on a text . |
| 5 | You might cope for a while with one eye closed or one hand behind your back but you would n't keep it up for long — nor would you perform at maximum ability . |
| 6 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |
| 7 | The play that they 're doing is a play called ‘ Nothing On ’ and has all the horrors you might think of a play with that title . |
| 8 | I suppose you might think in a case now you might think that er er certain people are n't entitled to welfare benefits or something that |
| 9 | The appearance of these locomotives , north of Warrington , was not as frequent as you might think from a study of published photographs of the period . |
| 10 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |
| 11 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 12 | It 's round , but it has a clarity to it that you might associate with a Telecaster and not with a Les Paul . ’ |
| 13 | This machine is no exception , and the quality of the build is better than you might expect for a bog-standard clone . |
| 14 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 15 | And I have a very strong extended family as you might expect of a half Italian , mother always cooking pasta and what have you at home . |
| 16 | Also from selected Victoria Wine stores is a sauternes in half-bottles with all the creamy , nutty complexity you might expect from a more elevated chateau , a snip at £2.99 . |
| 17 | ‘ Not perhaps the normal taste you might expect from a crew member . ’ |
| 18 | As you might expect from a Swedish manufacturer , the heating and ventilation are superb ; you can supply cold air to the face and warm air to the feet at the same time . |
| 19 | It wanted to be seen as an honorary member of the developed world experiencing the sort of hard times you might expect in a country with the world 's biggest foreign debt , $115 billion . |
| 20 | Spreadsheets are also borrowing features from other categories of package , such as Excel 's multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus , which you might expect in a word processor but will be pleasantly surprised to find in a spreadsheet . |
| 21 | I E you 're not really looking at a feudal economy in the south any more i it may be a much more heavily commercial capitalist economy and therefore the kind of land reform programme that you might incorporate from a feudal north might not be entirely relevant . |
| 22 | Tight perms also tend to look harsh , so you might opt for a softer , wavier look . |
| 23 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 24 | Celia , what about the fabrics that you might use for a baby ? |
| 25 | " You take after your father , liking sex , " she 'd say in the regretful tone you might use for a hereditary disease . |
| 26 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 27 | WordScan Plus ( WSP ) is what is known as an Omnifont system — it is designed to recognise virtually any typeface you might encounter in a business or commercial publication . |
| 28 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 29 | As it is , Bernard has no intention of trading in his guitar for anything you might see in a Kraftwerk video . |
| 30 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |