Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] could [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ones the or others , if you 're getting stuck on them , do n't miss something like this that you could do and get full marks . |
| 2 | You 'd never think it but McQuaid , like many of the others , was more or less illiterate though he could add and subtract quick enough when it concerned his pocket . |
| 3 | It took her from 25 February to 30 June to save a shilling , but once she had accomplished that she was content that she could manage and ‘ never let it trouble me again ’ . |
| 4 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 5 | She flushed scarlet , hastily collected as much as she could carry and started off up the cliff path . |
| 6 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 7 | Mr Syms and I would be most grateful if you could come and visit us , perhaps on a Sunday . |
| 8 | I would be most grateful if you could recommend and advise me on the aforementioned , plus compressors . |
| 9 | Paddington could hardly believe his ears and he hurried back outside as fast as he could go but once again he was too late . |
| 10 | ‘ On the 7th and 10th of Feb. we recd your Letters of the 25th of Septr and 6th of Oct : They were a source of the highest gratification to us all , but neither Letter was so full or explanatory as we could wish and from the slight mention of Mrs. Gould we are fearful that her health is not much improved . |
| 11 | to see what he could see , and all that he could see and all that he could see was the other side of the mountain , the other side of the mountain |
| 12 | And while both conglomerates needed independent producers to supply them with quota films ( they showed 49 British first features between them in 1963 ) , the supply was sufficiently buoyant that they could pick and choose . |
| 13 | It was as if his mind had a finite capacity for lines ; put in more than it could hold and they would start to overflow . |
| 14 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 15 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
| 16 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 17 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 18 | I was worried that it could dilute or blunt our provision . |
| 19 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |
| 20 | All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her . |
| 21 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |