Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] could [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1681 he launched Pennsylvania ( which included three counties that in 1702 became Delaware ) as an immense private estate to which settlers were welcomed and where they could buy land on relatively easy terms . |
| 2 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 3 | Alternatively , is the right hon. Gentleman implying — as I thought that he was in some of his remarks — that legal aid would be generally available to those appearing before adjudicators or tribunals , and that they could secure representation from any part of the legal profession ? |
| 4 | De Klerk warned that such " unilateral " initiatives were incompatible with previous agreements that constitutional reform should be the result of multiparty talks , that they could disrupt efforts to resume multiparty negotiations , and that they could cause violence to escalate . |
| 5 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 6 | They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money . |
| 7 | His mother the dowager Queen Isabella survived until 1358 and if she could transmit title to Edward III , why could not Jeanne of Navarre , Louis X 's daughter , or any of the daughters of Philip V do likewise ? |
| 8 | The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws . |
| 9 | I remember coming home from school and before you could do homework or go out to play there were always chores to do — you know , our own set of chores . |
| 10 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 11 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |