Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been all she could do , as she wrote to Ellen : |
| 2 | Here are more you could have in the FFL ex-Leeds team : |
| 3 | ‘ Surely there must be somewhere I could buy some . |
| 4 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 5 | Not , thought Robert , that there would be much anyone could do should the Twenty-fourth Imam decide to loon around SW19 behaving like a negative version of Superman . |
| 6 | There did n't seem to be much he could say . |
| 7 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 8 | There are sometimes I could find this quiet little place somewhere and just think , you know , it 's really nice . |
| 9 | Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’ |
| 10 | I often think er and then of course you see if , if they er the airmen , their wives used to try and get er digs near where the aerodromes were so they could see their menfolk . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If only Charles were here he could deal beautifully with this extraordinary turn of events , tell Charity how unimpressed he was , laugh the whole thing off . |
| 13 | Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’ |
| 14 | But there had been nowhere she could run to , no place to hide . |
| 15 | If that is so it could constitute theft . |
| 16 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 17 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 18 | The Greeks have a very large problem because there are so many important sites , but I think there is more they could have done , and could be doing now . |
| 19 | It 's like you could do , that but this quality , and you could do this and that really |
| 20 | to there hiatus , hiatus hernia , ooh terrible you 're stitched all inside ooh it 's like you could sit down to a beautiful tea tonight and enjoy it and then you could sit down to your breakfast in morning , one bite and that was you finished |
| 21 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |
| 22 | It 's almost I could take on board another two to three clerks , and I could say , could I do what |
| 23 | No , but again in terms of creative writing and feature writing , that 's maybe you could get two people to do a duo , one from the journalist side and one from more general side |
| 24 | ‘ Even if you were right — an absurd idea — what is there he could do about it ? |
| 25 | There 's nowhere he could have hidden . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There 's nowhere you could go that I would n't find you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There 's nowhere you could go that I would n't find you ’ . |
| 28 | They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private . |
| 29 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
| 30 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |