Example sentences of "said [pers pn] could [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , I became friendly with a neighbour , Derek Mills , and his wife Val , who said I could build an aviary on their land . |
| 2 | Yeah when I get my printer mum said I could write a book . |
| 3 | Old Crumwallis said I could have a glass of sherry . |
| 4 | Dad said I could have an order ! |
| 5 | He said I could murder a roll up I said could you ? |
| 6 | You well you asked us said you could break the journey . |
| 7 | I asked the man who owns it and he said you could have the Headmaster 's Study . ’ |
| 8 | She said she could feel a shard of genius enter her soul with my seed ! |
| 9 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 10 | Mrs O'Hara said she could see a gunman kneeling in the hallway firing into the room , and another gunman further along the hall . |
| 11 | Mrs Baines said she could see the buildings burning 100 yards from the house . |
| 12 | I said we could select the venues , he could write his own cabaret show ; he could go out and do 20 minutes and pull £100 a week , which was a lot of money in the 60's . |
| 13 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 14 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 15 | But I said we could join the other , you know that I know . |
| 16 | Masha and Sergei said they could eat a sandwich . |
| 17 | In the 1911 census , the most recent complete record of Gaelic-speaking , only 2% of the population said they could speak the language . |
| 18 | ‘ It said they could break a human 's arm with a blow of their nose . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 20 | He said they could have a picnic if they brought some cake out into the garden , but they did n't seem to understand him . |
| 21 | By lowering the nitrogen content , the company said it could cut the amount of nitrogen deposited on the land by pigs by 23 per cent . |
| 22 | He said it could follow an incident so dire that the mind had to block it out , sometimes along with other things . |
| 23 | The patient said he could feel a surge of energy run through his body ‘ like a tingling sensation ’ . |
| 24 | As Bob Merryfield was having his dram Charlie broached the subject of rabbits and Parkinson said he could have a pair , as a number had been shot the previous day . |
| 25 | I thought that would be that , but they said he could have a vote , and he loves to go . |
| 26 | But in a letter to Mr Pinder he said he could see no sign of any change in the policy . |
| 27 | I was told that when the Cabinet got my report of what the Tans had done Churchill said he could see no harm in it . ’ |
| 28 | He said he could see no reason why the council should finance the scheme . |
| 29 | ‘ He said he could pursue the matter , and he intended to do so , unless I — ’ |
| 30 | Robert said he could reveal the secrets of people 's credit card and bank accounts , health and criminal records , national insurance and tax details , and ex-directory telephone numbers . |