Example sentences of "and could [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 2 | If it 's not possible to buttonhole the parent in this way then a note in friendly terms saying that ‘ we have a problem and could we meet to discuss ways that the school may be able to help ? ’ is an approach that is likely to bring about a positive response . |
| 3 | He said he hoped we were having a nice time and could we leave the keys with Mrs Stewart please . |
| 4 | What and how far was the next county , and could we make it to the border before closing-time ? |
| 5 | So , should we , and could we compete with these sorts of practices ? |
| 6 | So if you could just spend five or six minutes doing that and could we come back at twenty five |
| 7 | And could we shout with the lark or crash with the sea |
| 8 | Yes , casual work and when some of these casuals felt that they did n't want to stop there two days , they used to tell the authorities that they had got promise of work at , at Yarmouth and and could we go soon , you see . |
| 9 | And could we take this yellow one off we 'll find it fits in like a wall , like that look . |
| 10 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 11 | And could they give us any suggestions — any positive help . |
| 12 | Would there be any , and could they be photographed ? |
| 13 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 14 | And could they be innocent ? . |
| 15 | And could they talk ! |
| 16 | Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company . |
| 17 | I leant out of the bedroom window and there was a man waiting there who said there had been a car crash and could he telephone . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 19 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 20 | ‘ And could he surf ! |
| 21 | Again , the vital questions were : could the king appoint archbishops ? and could he keep in regular contact with them once appointed ? |
| 22 | But if Betty began to weep Lydia would be , in humanity , bound to put her arm about her in consolation ; so she said earnestly that she was suddenly terribly hungry and could it possibly be time for lunch . |
| 23 | And could it only be two days since she had realised fully that she loved him ? |
| 24 | I wonder if you are familiar with this type of thing and could it be applied to computer video outputs . |
| 25 | Should man interfere with natural processes , and could it cause suffering ? |
| 26 | Please , use the form below and could you make every effort to pay your fee by January 14th 1990 . |
| 27 | Do these catfish grow too large for my tank and could you give me any other information ? |
| 28 | The other problem is that , assuming a rack is what you want and you can scrape together the readies , what would you choose to put in it , and could you stand the hassle of working out how to put it together , including the MIDI side ? |
| 29 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |
| 30 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |