Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some younger son from among Leicester 's tenants , placed by a dutiful father where he could readily get advancement . |
| 2 | He was n't even late for work , let alone under the influence of drink , so I could hardly suggest counselling in those circumstances . ’ |
| 3 | There is plenty of strategy here , but more heart and pain than you could possibly have room for . |
| 4 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 5 | Back in Ockleton 's rooms at Breakspear , seated by a roaring fire and sipping finer port than he could ever recall tasting , he had asked Ockleton to explain his reaction earlier to Harry 's revelation that Alan Dysart had once worked for him in Swindon . |
| 6 | Talking of waffling , if I could just shift ground slightly to another issue , it 's been touched on already , and that is of jargon . |
| 7 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 8 | She felt as if she could even feel smoke , stale and greasy , in her hair . |
| 9 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 10 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 11 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 12 | It would make a wonderful return journey if you could now turn south and pick up a return road by the dark green waters of the Walensee , an attractive unspoiled shore unaffected by its growing holiday business . |
| 13 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 14 | Craig Brewin , chairman of the Football Supporters Association , said fans who could not get tickets for big matches would face ‘ frustration ’ if they could not afford satellite dishes . |
| 15 | He asked if he could also have bonus money for the people below who had also contributed to his efforts . |
| 16 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 17 | It did n't , thank heavens , seem likely that a situation would ever arise in which there was no hope for Richard , whereas , on the other hand , Willis considered that for himself there was scarcely any hope at all if he could not sell Dreadnought . |
| 18 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 19 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 20 | This may be a difficult question to answer , and indeed these techniques may not be comparable , unless one could simultaneously measure function and visualise the squamous columnar junction , which is very difficult . |
| 21 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 22 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 23 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 24 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 25 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 26 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 27 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 28 | Elizabeth listened intently , till she could practically see steam puffing out of the ears of Seumas Ban and Lady Bridhe . |
| 29 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 30 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |