Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [Wh adv] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why I could n't start that , but I have . |
| 2 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 3 | And this is how you could best describe swimbladder disease . |
| 4 | This was where he could belong … |
| 5 | This was where I could best express myself . |
| 6 | This was how they could save time , catch up . |
| 7 | That is why we could treat them as more Realist than the Realists . |
| 8 | That 's why we could n't find it on C drive . |
| 9 | That 's why we could n't get a mortgage , or so he said . |
| 10 | That 's why we could n't , when we talked about it earlier , use the same word unacceptable , on both item two under Fire Service reductions . |
| 11 | You went to the marathon and that 's why we could n't do it to ya . |
| 12 | That 's why they could n't get |
| 13 | That 's why he could be there . ’ |
| 14 | That 's why he could end those last few minutes or hours of his life , in pain , but in peace , because he had the word , the assurance , the promise from Christ . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I could never be a Tory . ’ |
| 16 | That 's why I could never hold Ann-Marie responsible for what 's happened . |
| 17 | That 's why I could n't call you . |
| 18 | That 's why i could n't I thought I had n't got me pen . |
| 19 | That 's why I could n't ooh I could n't stand to marry a man that 's drank you know . |
| 20 | She was n't booked with us , she was a few weeks early , and that 's why I could n't bring her to mind straight away . ’ |
| 21 | That 's why I could n't keep my eyes ! |
| 22 | That 's why I could n't live there cos I 'd be fucking , I 'd be every night . |
| 23 | Er something she did n't expect and that 's why she could n't come . |
| 24 | The millions of stars in the Galaxy — that 's where I could hide ! |
| 25 | We got £110 for doing the gig , but the PA cost us £105 to hire , so we bought beer with the other fiver — and that 's when you could get a few beers for a fiver ! |
| 26 | That 's when you could tell Henry Mendez was Mexican . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but I think my mother is going to do that before Family Day ; that 's when it could all happen , Nina . |
| 28 | the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress |
| 29 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 30 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |