Example sentences of "they could of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , well , because I mean that any one of them could of said oh well we were being fired upon first and then they could of er , their colleagues fucking going on |
| 2 | Heritage 's depositors just took what they could of their own money and ran . |
| 3 | Slowly , life returned to something like normal in the Straits , and the bewildered survivors were able to bury their dead , and salvage what they could of homes in towns and villages that had been swept by tsunamis and showered with ash . |
| 4 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |
| 5 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 6 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 7 | Mm yes , well I think they sound like good targets , is , has anyone looked at their work and said I worked my socks off for that , I could not have improved it , I 've left that section blank so everybody thinks they could of improved that piece of work , good , that 's what this is all about , getting better . |
| 8 | The incidence is one in ten thousand so it 's pretty rare but untreated these children will grow up very seriously , mentally retarded , very , very poor quality of life and enormous stress on their families , when they could of been nearly normal , right so the cause is one of these essential amino acids which is powdered protein , so what 's the treatment ? |
| 9 | On the way home to their folds , in the evening , they could of course walk which ever end they liked . |
| 10 | They could of looked on it that I was depriving somebody . |
| 11 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 12 | Then the people were allowed back in to salvage what they could of their possessions . |
| 13 | It then had to be left to his governors and his staff colleagues to make such use as they could of any combination of qualities which he revealed . |
| 14 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 15 | They could of just shouted through ! |
| 16 | Coun Taylor said the council would be going into details about the new budget today and early next week to make the best they could of the situation . |
| 17 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 18 | they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that |
| 19 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 20 | then you 've got your two prominent teeth , they could of been the tiger 's two teeth |
| 21 | Why have you heard me say it before today Seems strange that they need to throw out those old curb stones , you 'd of imagined they could of used them again , would n't you ? |
| 22 | if you found out then you might have found out that they were n't very far behind , so they could of caught up and they could of gained a seat and they could of gained a say in the government |
| 23 | if you found out then you might have found out that they were n't very far behind , so they could of caught up and they could of gained a seat and they could of gained a say in the government |
| 24 | if you found out then you might have found out that they were n't very far behind , so they could of caught up and they could of gained a seat and they could of gained a say in the government |
| 25 | They could of , could n't they , up there ? |
| 26 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 27 | when it rips ooh , they could of cut it |
| 28 | it 'll never be moved from there , but what an opportunity they had , they could of , they could |
| 29 | yeah but if she 'd of had the accident they could of said no , she 's got a C D ten on her driving licence , she should n't have been driving it ! |
| 30 | One thing they could of done was put the same colour belt on the erm , oh ribbon on the hat |