Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] could [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street a block or two , she found a spot under a grocer 's awning where she could pore over the map . |
| 2 | In ‘ Fighting talk ’ the two are tied together in the nostalgic account of an idyllic childhood landscape , all large back gardens and open public spaces , where you could mooch about for as long as you wanted . |
| 3 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 4 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 5 | I took a mug of coffee up to the pathologist so I could earwig what was going down . |
| 6 | ‘ I do remember buying books of halfpenny tickets , so I could practice on my own in addition to the visits with the school . |
| 7 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 8 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 9 | BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers . |
| 10 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 11 | If I could Chairman erm just a little bit erm about the erm conservatives erm proposals . |
| 12 | Erm if I could sir , refer you to your ordnance survey plan which shows the the highway network as it enters the City . |
| 13 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 14 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 15 | ‘ If you could film all Ken 's words and actions when no cameraman was supposed to be looking , you 'd have another ‘ Carry On ’ film . |
| 16 | And you get I mean it might be an idea if you could sort of handle this formula but it 's not important really . |
| 17 | Yeah , if you could sort of , if you could put , put erm , if you could date them wherever they were so I can just remember , alright , it 'll help me . |
| 18 | So that means if you could line up a hundred million atoms you 'd just reach one centimetre ? |
| 19 | Well , we 've met the guy who lives up above us , because he jumped out of bed , they 've got french windows like we have , up above there , and he jumped out , and we were just sitting watching the telly or something , we heard these footsteps like going across the ceiling , it 's as though we could see 'em , cos we could sort of hear it and feel it . |
| 20 | But erm if we could sort of shout out a few of the brilliant ideas . |
| 21 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 22 | Because he could jigger up the doors just the same as anybody else . |
| 23 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 24 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 25 | Before they could strap it up , it had vanished too . |
| 26 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 27 | I learnt to speak French and German fluently , and had passed as much leave as I could travelling about Europe . |
| 28 | And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak . |
| 29 | We designated the areas , we chalked 'em off , we did as much as we could pre-prep . |