Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] could [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
| 2 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 3 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 4 | Had she really thought she could talk to me ? |
| 5 | Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’ |
| 6 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 7 | Assume you could talk to whomever you wish to begin to solve the problem . |
| 8 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 9 | Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations . |
| 10 | He did n't think it could happen to me or that it could be a blot on our landscape . |
| 11 | He said I could write to him ! |
| 12 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 13 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 14 | I wish I could convey to you what inspires them to do it . |
| 15 | I wish I could subscribe to your theory of mother-as-obstacle . |
| 16 | ‘ … and it was so exciting , like something you read about , you know , but you never dream it could happen to you . |
| 17 | Or it might be your neighbours have become victims of crime and you suddenly see it could happen to you . |
| 18 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |