Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the brothers believed they could do no wrong . |
| 2 | Ewan felt he could do nothing about this situation , and there was no use worrying about it . |
| 3 | Eva said he could do what he liked ; she would support them both — on love , presumably . |
| 4 | Sheer determination to prove she could do the job her father had n't believed her capable of kept her plugging away at it . |
| 5 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 6 | ‘ People can dip in and out , looking at objects which represent the best that artists of a certain period believed they could do woven in with some everyday things . |
| 7 | Strathclyde told it could do better with green policies |
| 8 | This is the operation that plant workers decided they could do without on the morning of the accident . |
| 9 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 10 | Right Said Fred learned they could do something , and they learned to be proud of it . |
| 11 | Carrie wished she could do that . |
| 12 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 13 | Anna found she could do it quite well , but Corrie had no aptitude at all , though when it came to learning Foundling hymns she excelled . |
| 14 | But bodyboarders knew they could do things with waves boardwalkers could only dream of . |
| 15 | I could do Y equals X squared I could do Y equals U squared . |
| 16 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 17 | Foakes v. Beer says he could do that . |
| 18 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 19 | which Don said we could do |
| 20 | God knows we could do with something to — Look , you absolutely sure you do n't mind me talking about your sister this way ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ God knows you could do with it ! ’ |
| 22 | While banks welcome the change , some critics fear it could do them more harm than good . |
| 23 | Er that was n't er on competition though , th that was er an Intercity job which Birmingham said they could do it for that figure . |
| 24 | Despite this little flurry of world premières , Lin wishes he could do more . |
| 25 | And today the Executive admitted it could do better when it came to grounds maintenance in that area of the city . |
| 26 | See , where we live up London , there ai n't no grass or garden places you could do this . ’ |
| 27 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |
| 28 | Caledor decided that there was only one thing left he could do . |
| 29 | Chris says I could do it with my eyes shut , but he 's biased . ’ |
| 30 | Apart from helping to reduce patient waiting lists it could do away with the need for exploratory operations in certain cases , particularly spinal and knee complaints . |