Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 2 | I could not write anything here yesterday because I was too desolate at the thought that I could hot come and talk to you . |
| 3 | ‘ The court is endlessly being adjourned and I could easily come and collect you once we 've been let out . ’ |
| 4 | So I 've got all ready , for me AIDS cos I used to just think oh I do n't really , I could just go and get some leaflets on ban on |
| 5 | I could just try and ask people . |
| 6 | I could only sit and marvel that some things are the same the world over . |
| 7 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 8 | I could only agree and wondered if Agrippa 's joke about magic might have some truth in it . |
| 9 | I could then sit and relax and listen to the other violinists . |
| 10 | Because my hair is dry I could really see and feel the difference and the fact that it did n't leave a coating or residue on my hair was great for me . ’ |
| 11 | As well as being a dirty habit which encourages bad health , bad breath and bad manners , I could never sit and listen to an addict justify his addiction . |
| 12 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 13 | While I could still feel and just see it , I opened the back door to the garden . |
| 14 | Another thing about being a qualified accountant is that I could always leave and do books at home . |
| 15 | She said , ‘ I suppose I could always go and live with Bertha , if Nell really does n't need me . ’ |
| 16 | People were comfortable and I could always go and get something I wanted . |
| 17 | Well I could always ring and ask them to get the container up here earlier on Friday you see so |
| 18 | ‘ I could always come and look after you — keep you company , ’ Alice said in a casual tone . |
| 19 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger about things from my own past , recalling occasions which only I could possibly remember and comparing his answers with those that I would be likely to give . |
| 20 | Do n't forget So I could actually start and do the ba , bacon actually could n't I ? |
| 21 | Denis Norden was as delightful and urbane a guest as Don Black had been , but this time I could actually hear and respond to what he was saying . |
| 22 | Somebody could perhaps sat and |
| 23 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 24 | From her own school she enlisted five teachers she could ill afford and ten senior boys and girls . |
| 25 | By four o'clock she was ready , dressed in a light rose-pink skirt and slim-fitting top , and staring at her watch , anxiously counting the minutes to when she could reasonably leave and arrive on time . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps even that is preferable to thinking she could just disappear and let us think she was dead . ’ |
| 27 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 28 | She could only stand and stare spellbound a little when he replied that it was n't smoke , but vapour from the warm stream that ran through the town . |
| 29 | She could only think and worry for John . |
| 30 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |