Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [Wh adv] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living is where I could go into a shop and say … |
| 2 | There were widely-spreading nets forever in need of mending , and small rough cafe 's where you could choose your own dishes in the kitchen , and many painters . |
| 3 | The big question was why it could not have been called something else altogether : Great North Large Tract of Land , for example . |
| 4 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 5 | The only mystery is how you could possibly be related to either of them ! ’ |