Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] could [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds more will follow , prompting Mr Hildesheimer to suggest that the best commemoration would be not to perform Mozart at all until next year , so that everyone could realise what they had been missing . |
| 2 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 3 | I was terrified when Herman , like someone in her books , turned to me and said : ‘ How delightful it would be if one could hear what she 's saying when she does this . |
| 4 | At the wheel of the XJR-S on a traffic-laden A11 , pushing the big car past streams of trucks at high speed , Brundle 's driving is like a chauffeur 's : it looks as if anybody could do what he is doing . |
| 5 | One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was . |
| 6 | And then , before anybody could realise what she was doing , she turned her wrist and tipped the entire contents of the glass down the Maître d 's shirtfront . |
| 7 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 8 | Not the happiest of phrases , she thought , though one could see what he meant . |