Example sentences of "had [noun] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got all the countries blanks might not oh I might not even have the countries on but if you had blanks you could put countries in , that 'll be easier than |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Theodora knew she had skills which could be valuable there . |
| 3 | At least in London , Manchester , Birmingham , Glasgow or Edinburgh , he had contacts he could exploit , although , he reflected ruefully , his contacts in London had n't borne much fruit . |
| 4 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 5 | The helmets and the shields were the same : they had designs you could hardly forget if you wanted to . |
| 6 | We ca n't implement it unilaterally , but if we had reciprocation it could be negotiated upon . ’ |
| 7 | We ca n't implement it unilaterally , but if we had reciprocation it could be negotiated upon . ’ |
| 8 | But while he still had legs he could run . |
| 9 | They sometimes had secretaries who could imitate their master 's hand so perfectly that it is difficult to tell one from t' other . |
| 10 | So yes , it 's one to forty ca n't be one to forty five because you have n't had tea well if you had tea you could say you were fortified |
| 11 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 12 | The thieves were kept under control because the organizers had evidence which could get them convicted . |
| 13 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 14 | It really took the late-Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to ’ |
| 15 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 16 | They had staff they could leave in charge last year . |
| 17 | She had news she could n't wait to impart . |
| 18 | The side windows had curtains which could be drawn in sunny weather and above them the opening lights had radiused outer corners and yellow ‘ Cathedral ’ glass ( i.e. crinkled glass ) . |
| 19 | We wanted them to know if they had information we could protect them if need be |
| 20 | " If we still had horses we could eat them . " |
| 21 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |