Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 2 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 3 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 4 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 5 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 6 | ‘ Or I could simply beat you until the blood runs . |
| 7 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 8 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
| 9 | The male domovoi traditionally lived by the front step and the female in the cellar , where she could best supervise the family 's food supply . |
| 10 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |
| 11 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 12 | You could organise a large event at your local park or a sponsored ramble in the country ; or you could simply leave the car at home and get people to sponsor your walk to the station . |
| 13 | You either go along with me until this is over or you could soon find yourself out of a job , although I suppose you could always see if Lewis had an opening for you on his paper . ’ |
| 14 | Back in Hinterzarten there are festivals , spa concerts , guided walking tours , tennis classes , canoeing and mountain biking — or you could just sit in the company of delicious pastries at one of the peaceful cafés . |
| 15 | Or you could just stay here and rest . |
| 16 | So you 've put your marks every two squares , but you do n't need to write all the numbers in you could just write say erm two , four , six , eight or you could just write five , ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five . |
| 17 | Or you could just write about how you enjoyed the story or you did n't enjoy the story , or you think it 's a great story , or what actually happened in the story . |
| 18 | Or you could just multiply them out if you liked . |
| 19 | If you want to park in Nottingham city centre there 's space at the Arndale Centre car park that 's at the bottom of Maid Marion Way or you could even made your way to the Stoney Street car park you 'll find that in the Leys Market . |
| 20 | Then there 's Koblenz where a huge castle overlooks the meeting and mingling of the Rhine with the Moselle , or you could even pop over and take a look at this smaller and gentler river . |
| 21 | Or you could always eat them straight away ! |
| 22 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 23 | Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies . |
| 24 | Lack of labour was often tied up with one member of the family being restricted in what he or she could physically do around the farm . |
| 25 | I would like to trace that film , but I do n't know where it is and where we could now see it . |
| 26 | It is certainly a procedure where one could well argue that the potential for serious abuse is endemic and inherent rather than isolated and , with due care , preventable . |
| 27 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 28 | Most two-syllable verbs that seem to be exceptions to the above might be interpreted as being morphologically complex ( e.g. ‘ permit ’ = ‘ per ’ + ‘ mit ’ ) , or we could simply list all such verbs as exceptions . |
| 29 | Or we could just use whatever we get at the interview side . |
| 30 | Or we could always do the Aqua Suite . |