Example sentences of "[be] [Wh adv] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is how you could best describe swimbladder disease . |
| 2 | The only mystery is how you could possibly be related to either of them ! ’ |
| 3 | This is why I could n't start that , but I have . |
| 4 | That 's why they could n't get |
| 5 | That 's why we could n't find it on C drive . |
| 6 | That 's why we could n't get a mortgage , or so he said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You went to the marathon and that 's why we could n't do it to ya . |
| 9 | Er something she did n't expect and that 's why she could n't come . |
| 10 | That 's why I could n't call you . |
| 11 | That 's why i could n't I thought I had n't got me pen . |
| 12 | That 's why I could n't ooh I could n't stand to marry a man that 's drank you know . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | That 's why I could n't keep my eyes ! |
| 15 | That 's why I could n't live there cos I 'd be fucking , I 'd be every night . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's why I could never be a Tory . ’ |
| 17 | That 's why I could never hold Ann-Marie responsible for what 's happened . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | And I made sure it was where it could n't be missed soon as she brought her cup out to the kitchen . |
| 20 | This was where I could best express myself . |
| 21 | But that was when he could still pull a trigger . |
| 22 | That was when you could n't speak , was it ? |
| 23 | The big question was why it could not have been called something else altogether : Great North Large Tract of Land , for example . |
| 24 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 25 | That was why she could not , must not , give up on the boy . |