Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 2 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 3 | I must say we could do a lot worse than you . |
| 4 | ‘ I should think we could put that right for you . |
| 5 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 6 | Er and I should think we could supply rollers on the same basis could n't we ? |
| 7 | I should think you could find her there . ’ |
| 8 | I should think you could use some money just now . |
| 9 | I see wi with the additional five hundred last year , I should think you could n't do less than that , could you ? |
| 10 | I should think you could have a tissue . |
| 11 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 12 | Well if you 've almost drowned her one week I should think you could quite well bring yourself to put a spider in her desk the next week said Daryl . |
| 13 | oh oh dear I should think you could send every female relative possible a mother 's day card |
| 14 | I should imagine it could get quite frantic anyway . |
| 15 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 16 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll bet you could find some clues the coppers have missed . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll bet he could n't have survived with the rest of us . |
| 19 | Yeah end on overlap , lookalike Daniel but I I 'll take I could be quite insulting but there you are ! |
| 20 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 21 | Oh I have a wee store , yes , but you see you do n't carry them , I do n't carry them with me , if I carried them with me I could sing I could , well that 's it , |
| 22 | Cos I , I could tell she could place me from somewhere but she could n't remember where , well th I do n't think , she gave the impression that she knew who I was . |
| 23 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
| 24 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 26 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd assume he could n't forget it if he wanted to . |
| 28 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 29 | If I tried I suspect I 'd find I could n't articulate the words . |
| 30 | I 'd say you could put a lot of the abuse down to drink , though anyone with a black face was in trouble in Golcar that Saturday night . ’ |