Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was wondering if you could spare me an hour . ’
2 Bannister , who has hit five goals in eight games , said : ‘ If I get 20 this season then I could earn myself an extension of the contract . ’
3 you 're alright like , you could make yourself a nest in 'em and you was
4 Willsford , Riverside Boy and Richard Dunwoody 's expected mount Wo n't be Gone Long are others to look at but I feel that the class of Chatam could make him the bet of the race .
5 But a more puritan era of egalitarian austerity could make them a lot shyer — and for some time to come .
6 Acting independently Tilda Swinton 's latest film role could make her a star , not just a darling of the avant-garde .
7 You could make yourselves a drink . ’
8 As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential .
9 I said , ‘ I do n't know , he has a title , I 'd be a lady , ’ and she said : ‘ Darling , nothing could make you a lady . ’
10 Yes I 'd love to get rid of a lot of them but I 'm yo you have got two ongoing problems both of which need to be treated so I think to start er cutting things out could make you a lot worse .
11 Well yeah , no I 've light bulbs I mean I could make you a list down but it does n't matter I can get that tomorrow Ann I 'll go down tomorrow you know , I 'll be up in time .
12 ‘ I could make you an offer for it when this is over .
13 Them as who could make it a bit cheaper see , and all that .
14 ‘ maybe you and I could make it a bit bigger though . ’
15 I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices .
16 The theatre is also hoping somebody could lend them a video of the 1990 World Cup Semi-Final between England and West Germany .
17 ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’
18 ‘ I 'm sad , Luney , that 's what it is , ’ and she wished Luney could cover her the way she had Francis , as though she too were like a baby .
19 How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him .
20 You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord .
21 ‘ Daddy , ’ she said , ‘ do you think you could buy me a book ? ’
22 DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’
23 Could buy you a candy , ’ he said .
24 I wish I could buy us a house — just a little place , big enough for you and me , where we could be all by ourselves . ’
25 Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree .
26 Ada believed that nobody could grudge you the right to complain .
27 So he is familiar , and he could win us a gold medal in that symbol of absolutism , the 100 metres sprint ( he could , theoretically , win us one in the 200 metres , but that is far less likely , far less mythopoeic ) .
28 Your colourful container pictures could win you a break in the Lakes , courtesy of the Buxton Mineral Water Company
29 could give her a ring , find out what school she 's at and then
30 It was ridiculous , for the flimsy garment could give her no protection , but nevertheless she felt very vulnerable without them .
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