Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] put [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 2 | I could n't put them anywhere the bin is full ! |
| 3 | Do n't mess me up again , because I could n't cope with it , I could n't put myself back together a second time ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't put you to that trouble . |
| 5 | I could n't put you right with that because I 'm not sure then or no . |
| 6 | I do , I like , do you think I could have a copy of anything you 've got to date because lying in my desk this morning is something I have to prepare a briefing note for my chairman and I was thinking about that recent one , but I could n't put my hand on it Robert , absolutely updated on exactly where we are . |
| 7 | I could n't put my finger on what it was I disliked about him , yet now it seems plain as the nose on your face . |
| 8 | I could n't put it down . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't put it down . |
| 10 | Leroy Brown , at one stage a prodigious sprinter , reflected on a career which never materialized : ‘ I just do n't know why I could n't put it together when it mattered . |
| 11 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
| 12 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 13 | And and what I 've got in front of me , David Lock , what I 've got in front of me is is erm , and I know David 's got it David Allenby 's got it as well , is the er paper from Harrogate 's Economic Development Officer to his Economic Development Sub-Committee , and it 's gone all the way through the process now and through the main council , where he has to answer that very question and I could n't put it better . |
| 14 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 15 | If I could just put it over here because it 'll be I think I , I 'm a little bit far away over there . |
| 16 | If if I co , if I could just put it there |
| 17 | well , if they were interested in speaking to me I could probably put them on to not just myself but members of my flight , it is n't my flight it 's flight erm and there are several of us in Scotland who could come in and do things like that for a modest remuneration erm |
| 18 | ‘ I could never put him into a home . ’ |
| 19 | Alyssia asked , puzzled , although she could not put her finger on why . |
| 20 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 21 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 22 | But she could not put it off forever . |
| 23 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 24 | She had one pair of trousers , and she could n't put them on again until they were dry . |
| 25 | But that idea killed the vision and she could only put her arms round him again and hide her face against his chest . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothin' you could exactly put yer finger on , like , ’ said Carrie ominously . |
| 27 | You could just put your initial in the corner . |
| 28 | My dear chap you could n't put them in a work of fiction . |
| 29 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |
| 30 | Well you could n't put them in the car could you ? |