Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 2 | Could n't nick them for it could you ? |
| 3 | She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover . |
| 4 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 6 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 7 | That 's in fact what I feel I ought to , since nothing of mine could ad to the fire and force and beauy that 's here . |
| 8 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 9 | His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " . |
| 10 | If I say the words giant squid , does that remind you of what could be waiting for us out there ? ’ |
| 11 | The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time . |
| 12 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 13 | Normally that should present no problem to the team batting second , but none of them could dominate the bowling and the low total seemed to spur England to some brilliant fielding ; when Botham got Gomes and Richards in successive overs , the game moved England 's way , and the rest of the wickets drifted away for a total of just 148 . |
| 14 | But of course he did n't and none of them could see what he felt like . |
| 15 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 16 | This can be compared with the gold content of the undated coins in the Sutton Hoo burial , and it is apparent that none of them could be later than AD 630 . |
| 17 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 18 | The others — none of them could even ride a donkey , only Nutty … but now they sit there , knees in , heels down , on the bit — ’ |
| 19 | Only the priests remained , and the Colonel and the Factor and none of them could really be asked . |
| 20 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 21 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 22 | None of them could understand why a bright and hard-working girl like Lydia would wish to marry him . |
| 23 | He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence . |
| 24 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |
| 25 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 26 | The first was that , although several people recognized her and stopped her and peered into the pram saying ‘ Ah ’ , to none of them could she have begun to say what was on her mind . |
| 27 | None of them could with certainty decide what was causing my spasms . |
| 28 | They knew that Nkrumah enjoyed a popularity which none of them could emulate . |
| 29 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 30 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |