Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE Jack Nicholson waited outside , Michael Douglas popped into the Seiko hospitality tent at the Barcelona Olympics and asked where he could get one of their watches . |
| 2 | He seized on it and asked when he could move in . |
| 3 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 4 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 5 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 6 | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness , but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains , maybe left-overs from the Blackout . |
| 7 | Instead , I wrote a short paper with Jan Moss in the same journal in which we pointed out this problem with the bubble and showed how it could be resolved . |
| 8 | If you sat in the fireplace and looked up you could see a disc of sky and several iron hooks in silhouette . |
| 9 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 10 | But when she went to the head of the stairs and looked down she could see that his study door was ajar and the house was quiet and she returned to her room . |
| 11 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 12 | She cleaned up the room , did not even hear his curses , and thought how nothing could affect her any longer . |
| 13 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 14 | She moved away , left him in the corner of the room and stayed where he could see her clearly . |
| 15 | And Dot considered her pigeon-hearted father and wondered why she could never recall his face . |
| 16 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |
| 17 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 18 | She found it perplexing and wondered how it could have affected her lessons with Miss Hatherby . |
| 19 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |