Example sentences of "but i [vb base] [pers pn] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know or , but I mean I could make , you could make anybody sandwiches ca n't ya ? |
| 2 | Er , you there 's no offend that I can cover with you , I 'm just having a wee chat with you on it in general terms on it , but I mean I could fill pages and pages |
| 3 | I mean I wo n't go into detail , but I mean she could do endowment , she could do it on a maximum investment plan basis , to back up her P E P , erm and save regularly through different funds . |
| 4 | Yeah but I mean you could leave it a while till you got some |
| 5 | No , but I mean you could see play really well . |
| 6 | No but I mean you could get a a stage in |
| 7 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 8 | No but I wish we could go in the morning so |
| 9 | It 's jumping about I know but I wish we could hear from Robin . |
| 10 | I keep your letter in the top pocket of my shirt , right near my heart , but I wish I could hold you . |
| 11 | ‘ But I wish I could say the same for your superiors . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
| 13 | Of course I believed her when she said it would , but I wish you could have seen those first two lepidopteral visitors . |
| 14 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 15 | I presume you wish to help underdeveloped countries but I fear you could do them considerable harm . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure he does , but I doubt he could protect a miniature poodle , ’ Martin commented , thinking how very vulnerable she was in this big house with only old Clyde to look after her . |
| 17 | but what I meant was is that we were gon na have a sort of a little gathering before but I suppose we could have that today sort of . |
| 18 | But I suppose you could go and look tomorrow morning |
| 19 | He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’ |
| 20 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Hmm , this circle might interfere with any melodious resonances , but I suppose I could give you a rattle each to shake . ’ |
| 22 | Neither of us , it would seem , is much of a leg man , but I suppose I could do with a bit more than I get . |
| 23 | But I expect we could try . |
| 24 | AT present the family have no plans for returning to England in 1997 , but I think they could decide pretty quickly if they needed to . |
| 25 | But I think they could have afforded , just the idea of me leaving home . |
| 26 | But I think they could learn something from us . |
| 27 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 28 | This is for next summer , but I think we could take a chance do n't you ? |
| 29 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 30 | ‘ For me Dave Mackay was more of a thoroughbred of the early times — but I think he could have played successfully in today 's football . |