Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I could spell resources , number of resources . |
| 2 | so I could swap tapes over . |
| 3 | Then perhaps she could think things through and decide what to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you could try waders , ’ suggested Preston . |
| 5 | You see in those days i people i servants were so you could get servants so easily ev even if you did n't have somebody living in er you , you 'd have a daily person . |
| 6 | I would like to hear from any other readers who share my interest in exotic foliage plants and perhaps we could swap cuttings and propagating material . |
| 7 | From inside we could hear screams of ‘ please , open the door ! ’ |
| 8 | The market mechanism fails to provide a means whereby workers can signal to firms that they would demand more goods and services if only they could get jobs and so have more money to spend . |
| 9 | whereas he 's got ta he says just one round here so they could make decisions for you . |
| 10 | If only he could accept things without question . |
| 11 | Mr Baker also claimed the Government had done all it could to make cars safe . |
| 12 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 13 | When she woke , her husband had gone and outside she could hear horses in the street . |
| 14 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 15 | Already they could see students in duffle coats , laughing and talking . |
| 16 | Outside he could hear children shouting on the lake . |
| 17 | Yeah , yesterday I could smell things first time for ages and ages ! |
| 18 | It was the most mature of his symphonies so far , and it shows how quickly he could assimilate aspects of national style , such as in the brilliant arpeggio passage which opens it — the famous ‘ premier coup d'archet ’ ( opening bow stroke ) of which the French were particularly proud . |
| 19 | Now I could plan excursions to Rome , Florence , Venice and yes , Milan , and study Luini 's work at first hand . |
| 20 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 21 | Her brief confusion at his sudden rejection of her had evaporated ; now she could see things very clearly indeed , and the hot flush of embarrassment washed over her . |
| 22 | Now she could see shapes beneath the water ; now there were three , no here came another one — four — silvery fish dancing in mid-air on her line . |
| 23 | Now we could hear nightingales again , singing against each other in the woodland scrub . |
| 24 | From behind he could hear horses whinneying , brakes applied , a crash and splintering wood . |
| 25 | Now he could imagine children being frightened of it . |
| 26 | Alternatively you could buy tickets costing 5 ( including buffet and entertainment ) from the following : |
| 27 | Several years ago they could offer mortgages at an interest rate of roughly 4% , fixed for an initial period of four years . |
| 28 | Equally it could signal obstructions and contradictions of a more frustrating sort . |
| 29 | Maybe I could open clothes shops in Poland , who knows ? |
| 30 | You work it out in stages , little bits , and then you add the bits together and then you add the bits together , so you say , well I could do a hundred times seventeen and then I could do ones times seventeen . |