Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I could manage one , I think . |
| 2 | I could do one myself . |
| 3 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 4 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've always driven a Porsche ever since I could afford one . |
| 6 | No er er erm it 's all in the cutting , of course it is very no that 's pork and Noel dare n't touch it so I 've got two slices so that you and I could have one . |
| 7 | I could kill one perhaps , but then … |
| 8 | " I think I could put one in . " |
| 9 | ‘ I could use one . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I wanted to get into a fight , I could pick one behind any pub in Luton any night I wanted , ’ he says , only half jokingly . |
| 11 | In fact , nearly all the breeders are based round the London area , which would still have meant a difficult journey to collect a bird , even if I could find one . |
| 12 | I could keep one in the green Eurobonds advert . |
| 13 | ‘ I could get one here , and come home with you . ’ |
| 14 | Well no I you do n't , I tell you what , after reading these I swear I could write one myself . |
| 15 | Nobody could put one over on him . |
| 16 | Against an orthodoxy which at that tune was inclined to reduce faith to the mere acceptance of ‘ the truths ’ in the Bible or in the teaching of the church — an acceptance which could leave one 's inmost self unaffected , and could even involve the toleration in blind obedience of contradictions and incoherences in the official system of belief — the voice pressing the claims of reason and the inner self needed to be heard . |
| 17 | She could denigrate one 's whole being into nothingness , ’ is how a senior member of her design team described it . |
| 18 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 19 | She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself . |
| 20 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 21 | She could see one now , hurrying through the herb garden to the little hut where they worked . |
| 22 | In addition the greatest single cause of a landless peasantry was missing : Carew contended that ‘ In times past , and that not long ago , holdings were so plentiful and holders scarce , as well was the landlord who could get one to be his tenant ’ . |
| 23 | If we had somebody to play alongside Gallacher who could pop one in regularly we would not be in our position . |
| 24 | ‘ If there is n't , you could start one . ’ |
| 25 | If you could send one soon , I should be glad . |
| 26 | But obviously if you 're going to do that you 'll have to do it during next week some time On the other hand I could give you a list of five topics and you could choose one . |
| 27 | Also the same if you 're playing football with Jim on Thursday you could also just mention to , I 'll leave you a couple of these er these leaflets which do explain a lot of the areas we 've covered tonight , erm perhaps you could give one to Peter or |
| 28 | Er you could you could print one off . |
| 29 | When her car was seen approaching people fled through covered lines of retreat , through side doors and stable yards , into the snow , anywhere to avoid her persuasive ‘ But surely you could manage one more . |
| 30 | well enough you could you could do one in day . |