Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it difficult to take orders , to be a follower rather than a leader , but I would n't have accepted if I was n't confident that I could make some contribution to the station . |
| 2 | I could make some excuse and come here — " |
| 3 | Afterwards , George asked me to come down and see if I could talk some sense into you . |
| 4 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 5 | As for Mark Crowe , the Argus sport and nature ramble hack , well , I thought I could expect some loyalty there . |
| 6 | God , I could use some dope ; I need to mellow out , I need to calm down . |
| 7 | After supporting them all day I could use some support myself . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll come up this evenin' , ’ said Linda , ‘ and if 'er shoes want a polish , I fink I could find some spit for 'er , I expect I could easy find a penn'orth . ’ |
| 9 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ I merely shut you up so I could get some sleep ! ’ |
| 11 | If only I could get some relief from this headache … ’ |
| 12 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And while I 'm there , I could buy some winter vests for the boys as well — and Josh needs a new shirt for best … . |
| 14 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 15 | If I wanted I could take some revenge on him , which would also — some puny power — be a bitter reproach to my own pointless life . |
| 16 | Glancing towards his staff' he said , ‘ I could take some coaching from the sidelines , if anyone can recall my legislative program . ’ |
| 17 | Mum and Dad and Mr and Mrs Lewis entered into the spirit of the occasion but I thought I could see some sadness in Mrs Lewis 's eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 19 | I could recommend some medication , or — ’ |
| 20 | Such plans , which could put some software in maintenance mode and some in the morgue , do n't appear to have affected DEC 's flagship database Rdb which is reportedly being rewritten in C for OSF/1 and may also get ported to Windows NT . |
| 21 | The parents were glad of a helping hand so them could have some time to themselves . |
| 22 | Maybe she could trade some haulage klicks for the crystal and take along a couple of pods on the open market , legit , for the fine . |
| 23 | She sat on the edge of his bed , eating the Nux Bar and wondering how she could make some money . |
| 24 | She could sense some undercurrent of tension which she was at a loss to explain . |
| 25 | She could need some luv , |
| 26 | At the time she thought she might have to give up riding , and decided that if she had Bubbles broken to harness she could have some fun driving her and doing some in-hand showing . |
| 27 | At least she could take some comfort from the fact that Rune Christensen was also in the hunt . |
| 28 | What if she could uncover some evidence that he was n't the paragon of virtue her mother blindly worshipped ? |
| 29 | Again she could see some dark and almost deadly challenge in his eyes . |
| 30 | If she could buy some make-up after the X-ray expedition the discolouration would be hardly noticeable — only she 'd have to borrow some money from Penry , she realised , frowning . |