Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I resisted the urge to retort with his curtness , ‘ Because he 's not sleepy ’ , and gave all the medical reasons I could think of . |
| 2 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 3 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |
| 4 | an interim award will be made if a defender can meet the obligation either from his own funds or from funds he could dispose of at will . |
| 5 | For example , if a person is being asked about her educational background one interviewer could encourage her to talk about the criticisms she could offer of it , while another interviewer could concentrate on the benefits she received from it . |
| 6 | Instead she settled for the three most applicable adjectives she could think of . |
| 7 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 8 | There are a lot more questions I could think of , but could these be covered in your pages ? |
| 9 | Nigel 's sympathetic male editor agreed to ask all the good-looking women writers he could think of . |
| 10 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 11 | You know , some patients I could think of seem to have the idea that everything should be done for them in hospital |
| 12 | She silently called him all the names she could think of , then repeated the choicer ones for good measure , as she sluiced her face in cold water . |
| 13 | That all costs money , and erm there are various ways we could suggest of raising that money , but that needs to be done . |
| 14 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 15 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 16 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 17 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 18 | There were so many reasons he could think of that stood in the way of his emulating Sebastian Smith of Greycoats that he could not start to list them . |