Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [pers pn] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used , used jump it we could put them on her cupboards , you know , make her something a bit bigger , they 're gon na get that off there . |
| 2 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 3 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 4 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 5 | cos I , I went down to sort it out and like , if I 'd had yours I could have , they could have mended it there and then . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title . |
| 7 | It was Vico , in his New Science ( 1725–44 ) , who gave at once a new confidence and a particular direction to social thought , in his argument that ‘ the world of civil society has certainly been made by men ’ and that this ‘ since men had made it they could hope to know ’ . |
| 8 | Sheriff William Reid had told him he could face prison but it would help if the university got its money back . |
| 9 | A few months before , if anyone had told him you could feel dislike for your own child , a real aversion from your own flesh and blood , he would not have believed them . |
| 10 | Uncle Walter had told him you could get to Australia by digging . |
| 11 | He said he hoped that if he had to do it he could count on me . |
| 12 | They thought she might be having a baby , and if she really wanted to hurt them she could tell them she might be . |
| 13 | Again Leith wanted to tell him he could forget all idea of her ultimately becoming his cousin by marriage , but again , she found she could not . |