Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm and that presumably one could say that in the same way as Stalin did but that erm Trotsky 's idea was much nearer to Marx . |
| 2 | At eight o'clock I could see the faces of the audience well enough , but by and by the room became quite dark , and I seemed to be addressing an audience of silent and attentive ghosts . |
| 3 | Wh what I 'd like to suggest , without going through it all again , is that perhaps we could agree to ask the Town Clerk to write to Planning Department and voice our concern at the way this matter is being handled . |
| 4 | So I really , what I 'm asking , is that perhaps it could be set out exactly now what stage we have reached , and what the recommendation is as from today . |
| 5 | What I think it , what makes it good erm , is that so we could er lift the paper out and |
| 6 | She 'd always run into my arms when I did that so I could lift her up , but she do n't do it this time . |
| 7 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 8 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 9 | But , you know i I mean actually the other , the other aspect of it Anne if you , if you pull this out you could be talking about hosting small conferences and that |
| 10 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 11 | Japan had never seen her before and she is now so popular there she could not fail really . |
| 12 | Funny actually they could n't , when the rescue people came they could n't see where the damage was because of the dust . |
| 13 | He believed , without conceit , that not everyone could do this job and , as he felt that he could , it was up to him to do it . |
| 14 | On the point of commenting scathingly that not everyone could be expected to be as cold-blooded as he was , Gina hesitated , finally deciding that in this case discretion was certainly the better part of valour . |
| 15 | Yet evolutionary science also pointed to the precariousness of moral progress-how it could so easily slip back into animal chaos . |
| 16 | Er I do n't know when that was built , it might not have been built but it er it 's Victorian so it could have been built like in eighteen thirty soon fa certainly soon after eighteen thirty that would have been built . |
| 17 | Yeah , you 're longest chain is a six so it could of been clearly based on hexane . |
| 18 | Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . |
| 19 | Mm and just his wages how much extra they could afford . |
| 20 | I told them there was nothing much more we could usefully do there and we 'd better leave before we were ejected . |
| 21 | ‘ I was happy with the way I played and I do n't think there was much more I could have done , but my second serve was not good enough . |
| 22 | Did n't get a telephone till nineteen well I could n't tell you really . |
| 23 | And if you did n't want to do national curriculum levels or it was n't appropriate then you could continue your staff comment now or you could draw a wee picture there or something like that , you know ? |
| 24 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 25 | Short of giving the guy cue-sheets , there was not much else we could do . |
| 26 | There was not much else they could say that was understandable in English . |
| 27 | There was not much else they could do . |
| 28 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 29 | Against such an onslaught there was nothing much else he could do . |
| 30 | In time it had become apparent that , although Wheeler enjoyed giving orders and making speeches , there was not much else he could do . |