Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've got quite a bit well either that or we could watch the programme and then wash up , clear up and go to bed . |
| 2 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 3 | But , having said that , if you feel , particularly with schemes that you are particularly familiar with , that that one is above or another or we could substitute rather than , there wo n't be any more money , that 's the point I need to stress I think . |
| 4 | Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence . |
| 5 | She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice . |
| 6 | ones the or others , if you 're getting stuck on them , do n't miss something like this that you could do and get full marks . |
| 7 | He knew many people in the village , almost everyone except the newly arrived and the ones who used the village as a dormitory and who worked in Bath or Chippenham or Swindon , but he knew very few that he could classify as friends . |
| 8 | They had n't said to one another that they could n't understand his talk about the Abigails and the Dasses and Mr Plant or the Artilleryman 's Friend . |
| 9 | However , it should be pointed out that not every coffin-maker or funeral furnisher knew this and one could end up with the horrendous mismatch of an elderly widower being given a plate intended for a young girl . |
| 10 | And and or or remained stationary but they mostly went up a copper or so every and this was er a real thorn in the side of the employers you know , they wanted to get rid of this and they could n't . |
| 11 | Now somewhere on there we should say what the total is because we could look at this and we could say , well she saves erm half of it but does she , how much does she get ? |
| 12 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 13 | I do n't know this and I could be learning . |
| 14 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 15 | I mention this cos it could be THE way for list members to get their tickets from the LUFC ticket office , and avoid all that hopeless phoning . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry to be here like this but I could n't get through to anyone . |
| 17 | But at least it would give us some because you could say well yes , there has been progress , erm primary school might have said |
| 18 | We hate doing this because it could be handy information in the event the other party ever accuses us of a transgression . |
| 19 | He knew this because he could see his lips moving . |
| 20 | I was just wondering if later on , I mean there 's a lot of work goes into it , later on , if you want to sustain a programme on this whether we could use the Town Hall , because often other . |
| 21 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |
| 22 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 23 | And we can have a look at some consequences of that so you could have short term , long term consequences . |
| 24 | That suited them when there was little that they could agree the UN should do . |
| 25 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 26 | While de Gaulle did not find it difficult to detect what was in the air , there was little that he could do to influence Allied planning directly . |
| 27 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 28 | Does he not think that , with a general election coming , if he is confident in his position , the least that he could do would be to put that forward in a general election so that at least people will have an opportunity to give a view before they are committed by the right hon. Gentleman 's signature of a treaty of this magnitude ? |
| 29 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 30 | If there were , for instance , a conceptual link between mental state and behaviour such that we could not conceive of the behaviour being present without the ( or some ) mental state , the argument from analogy would be unnecessary . |