Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 2 | Perhaps , from those remarks , it 's hardly a question but perhaps you could just clarify |
| 3 | Should have been thrown out really but somehow she could never bring herself to do it . |
| 4 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 5 | Said a daily newspaper : ‘ The Beatles and the Stones may have had similar scenes but even they could never have induced bullet-headed toughies with flat noses and bovver boots to wear stick-on gold stars round their eyes . ’ |
| 6 | If you did n't all want to go , you know you do n't have to go , but then I could just take maybe ten or fifteen of you , but how many will be interested in going to the one in the summer in this lovely out-door theatre ? |
| 7 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |