Example sentences of "[be] [Wh adv] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked to be outside , liked to watch the day waxing or waning , liked to be where she could see her household moving about . |
| 2 | He wanted them to be where he could visualize them . |
| 3 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 4 | Now here 's how you could own one . |
| 5 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | That 's when you could tell Henry Mendez was Mexican . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | That is why we could treat them as more Realist than the Realists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Living is where I could go into a shop and say … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The millions of stars in the Galaxy — that 's where I could hide ! |
| 14 | There were widely-spreading nets forever in need of mending , and small rough cafe 's where you could choose your own dishes in the kitchen , and many painters . |
| 15 | Here 's where you could see it coming . |
| 16 | This was how they could save time , catch up . |
| 17 | Which was how we could get away from Vadinamia , unmolested by any of that cavalcade of criminals . |
| 18 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 19 | If you were a " Sir " then the name just after that was your first name , so that must be the surname … and Christian name was easy because Christ had been Jesus Christ , so obviously therefore the Christian name was the second name … and that was how you could tell . |
| 20 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 21 | This was where he could belong … |
| 22 | How nice it was when we could leave the back door undone for the baker to put the bread on the table , the butcher to walk in and even put the meat in the pantry safe and the insurance man to pick up his money from the table . |
| 23 | But time was when she could have commanded a grown man to do her errands and pay her debts . ’ |
| 24 | That was why she could hear that thrush , that blackbird , that cuckoo . |