Example sentences of "could [vb infin] one [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Is he sure , all these years later , when he makes remarks about my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) that he could recognise one now ?
2 We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives .
3 If you could send one soon , I should be glad .
4 If he did n't wear his glasses , he could bring one on .
5 She could see one now , hurrying through the herb garden to the little hut where they worked .
6 In Britain , most juries would find it depraving and corrupting to solicit members of the public to become voyeurs of an actual rape , murder , and dismemberment , but a new criminal test based not on the effect of the work , but on the circumstances of its production could provide one more useful link in the chain of criminal provisions which modern media law requires .
7 He asked if he could try one out .
8 Northumbria 's Assistant Chief Constable David Mellish warned : ‘ We could have one again tonight or any time . ’
9 ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs .
10 Er you could you could print one off .
11 Leslie , however , could go one better : ‘ It must be nice , ’ he replied , in a piece of monumental understatement , contained in a letter written during a lull in the fighting at Wadi Akarit , ‘ to ramble round the Pilgrim Way .
12 Nobody could put one over on him .
13 " I think I could put one in . "
14 These days , though , you could pick one up , if you could find one at all , for around £380 , showing just how unfashionable the poor old RD has become .
15 ‘ I could get one here , and come home with you . ’
16 Hey , we could get one up on snobby Ursula .
17 Not for , then we could think about having a grant aided class if we if we could get one still for this leisure activity , if people were interested .
18 The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery .
19 At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible .
20 I could kill one perhaps , but then …
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