Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] with [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | she serves teas and so erm , I could do with somebody seeing her |
2 | Sometimes I feel I could do with one . |
3 | But I could do with one , ’ he drawled . |
4 | Oh yes I could do with one . |
5 | I could do with one now I think . |
6 | I could do with one I suppose |
7 | I might as well get up — I could do with summat to eat , to tell the truth . |
8 | I hope it do n't take me too long to get home — I could do with summat to eat . |
9 | I do n't feel too tired , but I could do with summat to eat . |
10 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
11 | I could work with everything from marmosets to elephants . |
12 | I never thought I could work with someone like Oliver there , but I can . |
13 | Yeah , well she could do with something . |
14 | She could cope with anything Luke Hunter threw at her . |
15 | Jo decided that she could work with anyone who hugged a tree . |
16 | There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling . |
17 | Though you look as though you could do with something to perk you up . |
18 | Er you could do with something to hold it with or else you 're gon na get into a terrible terrible mess . |
19 | You look as though you could do with one . |
20 | You could do with one . |
21 | We could do with one for that in fact they 'll be both |
22 | No , we could do with one to keep everything together cos contracts and that you have |
23 | God knows we could do with something to — Look , you absolutely sure you do n't mind me talking about your sister this way ? ’ |
24 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
25 | I think we could do with somebody I , I mean Stanley 's er , er has been at er been repet |
26 | Well that 's what I was thinking , perhaps we could go with somebody somewhere . |
27 | Client , it could happen with anything . |
28 | He looked as if he could do with one . ’ |
29 | So really he could do with one for down there and one for home . |
30 | Oh well I yeah I was just thinking he could do with something on them like . |