Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] could go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think I could go now ? |
| 2 | Do you think you could go upstairs and be with the boys in the dormitory ? |
| 3 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 4 | She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them . |
| 5 | He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him . |
| 6 | I suppose I could go home again ! |
| 7 | The Masters were to hear the suits and decide which could go forward . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I suppose you could go there for a new typewriter , though as I say , they 're mainly interested in bulk orders . |
| 9 | Most observers see the index touching bottom before 15,000 but some believe it could go as low as 10,000 . |
| 10 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 11 | He was disappointed by her news as the loss of the big one also meant you could go home . |
| 12 | How long she ran , or how far , she had no idea , but at last she felt she could go no farther . |
| 13 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 14 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 15 | The following afternoon , Reynard Lennon admitted he could go no further in this research and it was time to report to Jahsaxa . |
| 16 | At breakfast on the day before they were due to arrive in New York Mrs Carson said , ‘ I think you could go below and see your cousins today . |
| 17 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 18 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 19 | They came and prodded me and conferred , and then Dr Maxwell said I could go home . |
| 20 | I wish I could go there . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , how I wish I could go home and find him there ! ’ thought Penny , as she hurried along the footpath that led to her house . |
| 22 | I hoped we could go someplace . |
| 23 | I wish we could go straight to bed instead of this bloody reception ! ’ |