Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I quite like somewhere I could get uhum a cover for the bed to match . |
| 2 | If only I could spell resources , number of resources . |
| 3 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
| 4 | Whilst the seconder is coming to the rostrum colleagues , perhaps I could advise Conference of what the position is at the moment concerning the programme . |
| 5 | We seem to have gone down rather well at the venues we performed in , and have already received requests to do a repeat performance for Children in Need next year — perhaps I could get LASMO emblazoned on the front of my costume then ! ’ |
| 6 | Or Tasse — perhaps I could get Tasse . |
| 7 | It occurred to me that perhaps I could invite Erika and Paul out for lunch . ’ |
| 8 | So I could go Monday , sixteenth Monday , yes ? |
| 9 | I would like to stay the same age so I could play football . |
| 10 | so I could swap tapes over . |
| 11 | Straightaway I could smell toast being made in the little room behind the shop among the scales and ledgers . |
| 12 | Oh , if only she could stop crying … |
| 13 | Then perhaps she could think things through and decide what to do . |
| 14 | Perhaps she could make tea . |
| 15 | Perhaps she could ask Terry . |
| 16 | Perhaps she could let Ethel off . |
| 17 | Perhaps she could persuade Charles Harvey to take her to Andrew Neil before they went out to dinner . |
| 18 | Perhaps you could tell P C some of the things to do with the investigation that were in the programme , |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you could try waders , ’ suggested Preston . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 21 | ‘ If only you could sing opera . ’ |
| 22 | So you could relate positivity to achievement and see what you have access to that might express that . |
| 23 | So you could see Jim . |
| 24 | You see in those days i people i servants were so you could get servants so easily ev even if you did n't have somebody living in er you , you 'd have a daily person . |
| 25 | Also in England the police would n't go to a fire , but we go in the hope that perhaps we could save life . |
| 26 | I would like to hear from any other readers who share my interest in exotic foliage plants and perhaps we could swap cuttings and propagating material . |
| 27 | Erm I think of the heroines that we 've studied , Emily also perhaps we could include Matilda from Attranto erm , Maude from Uncle Silas Helen Huntingdon from Wildfowl Hall , and Helena , I would say , not Rosa Budd , she 's not in this tradition |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps we could have lunch before you go ? ’ she forced out , as if the idea was merely spur of the moment , merely friendly , merely pleasant . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps we could have cider with our picnic , ’ said Betty . |
| 30 | Perhaps we could have dinner out first depending on what time it starts . |