Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [subord] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the table waitress was away delivering the order , a passing waiter noted an empty juice glass and stopped to ask if he could fetch a refill . |
| 2 | However , in July Mrs Singh phoned to ask whether I could go with her to Cedars ' open evening . |
| 3 | Then he phoned to ask if he could visit me and my daughter . |
| 4 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 5 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 6 | It will now be for the Home Secretary to decided when he 'd released although he could be transferred to a hospital in France . |
| 7 | Perhaps the old woman would die too before really warm weather came and the old man began to smell when they could save by burying both with one funeral . |
| 8 | When the yard closed we began to wonder if we could use the Worm in some way , and when Sakata opened we began to realize how . |
| 9 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 10 | This really sapped my energies — it was so obviously just a sport for them — and I began to question whether I could go on . |
| 11 | He visited Edinburgh , saw what they were doing there , liked it and decided to see whether it could be done at Sussex and approached the university through the Bi-Medical Engineering Group , of which I 'm a member , and I was interested . |
| 12 | Accordingly , one winter 's day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place in America , I decided to see if I could find him . |
| 13 | It was impressed with the usefulness and flexibility of the scheme , but needed to consider whether there could be a more effective use of resources . |
| 14 | Oliver started to ask whether they could not drop it and go home , but it struck him that he was in a precarious position and he kept quiet . |
| 15 | People we knew asked if they could leave their horse , Shamrock , in one of the fields . |
| 16 | She went to see if she could be of any use . |
| 17 | Feeling dejected , she tried to push the questions from her mind , and as soon as the register formalities had been completed she left the office and went to see if she could assist Matt with the loading of the barbecue trailer . |
| 18 | Interview.He sez he went to see if he could help because he 's a first aider . |
| 19 | People kept asking if they could see upstairs.It 's a constant challenge to restore the house . |
| 20 | I ran to see if I could help the traveller , who was swearing furiously as he pulled himself free of his horse . |
| 21 | Inevitably , he had flooded the engine , and then had to wait before he could try again , and still no sign of life . |
| 22 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 23 | The senior porter had said , ‘ Sign here , please , Nurse , ’ and been kind when he had to wait until I could see well enough to sign that No. 4 was David Alistair Grant from Arthur Ward . |
| 24 | It had to go because he could make more money having erm the three caravans on the site that this occupying . |
| 25 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |
| 26 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 27 | I had to know if I could put life into it . |
| 28 | He had died before they could marry , but she still dreamed of their long walks on the Moor and the kisses which they had exchanged when they had managed to escape from her chaperone . |
| 29 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 30 | She had been keen on the idea and had talked of planting more spruce for the specific object of selling them as trees at Christmas but she had died before they could do anything more about it . |