Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel . |
| 2 | Edward would come and live on Grace , which would save the rent he was paying on his rooms at present ; the girls , once they were not being prayed for at the grotto , would agree to go back to the nuns ; and with Tilda at school she could go out herself and look for a job . |
| 3 | ‘ If we could revive Monaghan Day for Daddy it could help to start him back to himself . |
| 4 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 5 | At Paraparaumu near Wellington you could a Cessna 150 for $90 ( £27.30 ) an hour solo . |
| 6 | With Wagner in mind he could say it now . |
| 7 | And as I was saying to Terry Heselton over coffee it could be Selby looking for its two hundred and fifty hectares . |
| 8 | If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence . |
| 9 | In this example we can start at P , go to M and then to D. So the angle is called PMD. of course we could just as easily start at D , go to M and then to P and call the angle DMP . |