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 … |