Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I allow other hon. Members to contribute , perhaps I could have five minutes or so , along with Opposition spokesmen , to make my wind-up speech and give a total justification of what the Government are doing . |
| 2 | If only she could shut these eyes and open them on the past and try again . |
| 3 | Perhaps you could have two pieces of broken gramophone record with you as a prop to start the extract . |
| 4 | of the client to lead you on to perhaps you could introduce more elements into your actual |
| 5 | Had n't she pretended , deliberately , to be younger than she was so she could do these things under the guise of innocence ? |
| 6 | so you could compare different ones and things like that |
| 7 | So you could use different characters of the file name to mean different things . |
| 8 | From inside she could hear raised voices and a shrill cry , as if someone were in pain . |
| 9 | Right that 's for measuring angles so we could measure these angles before we s before we start on the money |
| 10 | Two sets of twelve so we could say two times it or we could add twelve to twelve . |
| 11 | so we could have ten times thirty six . |
| 12 | So we could try different things , there 's this one over it comes in somewhere does n't it ? |
| 13 | Well our stint was a lot longer than his so he could keep three horses going you see ? |
| 14 | He said : ‘ They suddenly started feeling quite ill , if you went outside you could feel little bits of burning on your skin . ’ |
| 15 | Outside you could see invertebrate waves expiring on Rocky Point . |
| 16 | ‘ We do value our small business customers but generally we could avoid many problems if they did communicate more with us . ’ |
| 17 | Also we could recruit new members in other workplaces who will be aware of what the G M B provides . |
| 18 | Later they could have wedded sentences in constructions such as causal conditionals , being both a spur to and the reflection of our ancestors ' growing conceptual mastery of the world about them . |
| 19 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 20 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 21 | Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor . |
| 22 | Now it could fetch many times this amount when it 's auctioned . |
| 23 | If I gave you sort of X to the seventeen or something , well you could put two values in . |
| 24 | Well we could have continuous weights in that particular array possibly . |
| 25 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
| 26 | Years ago one could buy great logs of Kauri pine from New Zealand , yellow pine from Quebec and so on which were virtually perfect but those days are long gone . |
| 27 | For three days and nights we laid there and rolled , and rolled , and rolled , while to seaward we could see huge tankers disappearing in the tremendous swell . |
| 28 | Overhead they could hear human feet and the growling of humans in trouble . |
| 29 | Here they could cross two rivers , the Frome and the Avon , just before these joined to make one larger river which was too difficult to cross . |
| 30 | He was a hard worker , and you had to set these pens every time for the sheep you see , well he could carry three hurdles on his back , and I could , five , that 's right five , and I could carry three , he carried five . |