Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should think we could put that right for you . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Er and I should think we could supply rollers on the same basis could n't we ? |
| 4 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 5 | oh oh dear I should think you could send every female relative possible a mother 's day card |
| 6 | I should think you could use some money just now . |
| 7 | I should think you could find her there . ’ |
| 8 | I should think you could have a tissue . |
| 9 | I mean , Blackbeard must know we could 'ave recognized the man from the newspaper photograph , and that we might go to the police about it . ’ |
| 10 | I should imagine it could get quite frantic anyway . |
| 11 | I must say we could do a lot worse than you . |
| 12 | Michael and I were both very nervous , for even at this stage something might arise which could mean that the adoption would not go through . |
| 13 | Yet if it were not for the eclipses of May , June and November , Pisceans might think they could get off comparatively lightly . |
| 14 | But I can see how you might think you could gain an advantage — me having problems with the local police while you work out a way to come up smelling sweet . |
| 15 | Whittam Smith might feel he could achieve profits faster in a three-cornered race . |
| 16 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll bet you could find some clues the coppers have missed . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps , if she made herself useful , he might decide she could stay — for a while at least , just until she got something else sorted out . |
| 19 | She says no you ca n't , I might do and then when she 's ready to go out she 'll say you could 've taped it . |
| 20 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 21 | If they can build aqueducts you 'd think they could engineer a wallet to keep their money in . |
| 22 | you 'd think they could know appetite |
| 23 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 24 | S you could do you could do a hexagon this way actually draw a hexagon . |
| 25 | As a chemist , is there anything that you would really like to know , something you 'd really like to discover , something that if you knew you could feel you could do a whole lot more chemistry ? |
| 26 | Christina was already thinking about who she could ring who could contact Stephen . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | By the seven beards of his ancestors , Balor would run , and they 'd see who could run faster ! |
| 29 | And they 'd be talking , now you could bet they could get somebody interested in that shop on , on politics or trade unionism , they 'd get one in that shop . |
| 30 | But the thing is once you 'd fit you could stay there . |