Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his betrayal of the Decembrists in 1825 and his long identification with the regime of Nicholas I , he had few friends on the left of the political spectrum who could advise him on the way in which emancipation should proceed . |
| 2 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 3 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 4 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 5 | The top is not visible from the road , and were it not for a sizeable cairn you could miss it altogether . |
| 6 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 7 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 8 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 9 | The following day we could knock it off in few hours before returning to base . |
| 10 | Fenella Fielding , for instance , could contrast the sometimes obsessive manic figure of Pieces Of Eight with the more relaxed co-star in films like Carry On Regardless ( she played a woman in search of a male baby-sitter who could take her to bed ) and Carry On Screaming ( a velvet-clad vamp ) . |
| 11 | If Bragad guesses at your real identity it could cause us a world of difficulties with some of the lords . ’ |
| 12 | So I brought them home with me so I could , I could take in actual fact I could take them back . |
| 13 | If the walls separating the two are of the partition rather than supporting variety you could take them down and incorporate the space into one much larger room which will make more family sense . |
| 14 | But like I mean , I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things I could handle it but like , like on that op op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled . |
| 15 | If it 's on a solid surface you could light it from above with a downlight or spot . |
| 16 | A ten-minute programme could be suitable for advanced learners who could follow it without difficulty . |
| 17 | My granny could speak it well and my great granny she could speak it and read it . |
| 18 | Good job you could call him up . ’ |
| 19 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 20 | But that 's it , on a good day we could give you ten only , and we could n't give you any more . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 22 | What has Karen got on her washing line it 's a great game we could use it tell us what 's Karen got on the washing line ? |
| 23 | The only player from the current squad who could replace him , without a complete change of team style is Noel Whelan . |
| 24 | And while Carmen Callil hoped for a ‘ writer/thinker of some revolutionary kind who could … elaborate some startling new ideas in a work of social and political theory which could get us all thinking and acting again , with hope ’ , what we would get instead was ‘ more self-justifying memoirs from useless politicians ’ . |
| 25 | Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it . |
| 26 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 27 | Hang on , hang on Has anyone got some spare money I could pay 'em back ? |
| 28 | He would pump away until he was exhausted , as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed . |
| 29 | This means that when we designed general SVQs we could give them all a similar number of module credits — whereas different occupational SVQs often have widely varying numbers of modules . |
| 30 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |