Example sentences of "[pron] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 2 | I could be taught . |
| 3 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 4 | I could be here tomorrow too . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I could be out of a job . |
| 6 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 7 | He told me I could be back in a fortnight . ’ |
| 8 | I had to show him I could be an international rather than just a squad player . |
| 9 | I could be in London this evening with Colonel Vaughan having a good piss-up , then probably on leave for a couple of weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I could be as certain but I asked the hospital to meet her as well just in case . |
| 11 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't spect I could be as good as her , but I 'd be nearly as good . |
| 13 | I like a Quilt so I could be warm at night . ’ |
| 14 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 15 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 16 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 17 | But I was thankful when the summer holiday started and I could be released from duties I was finding it harder and harder to cope with . |
| 18 | I could be , but I do not think I am . |
| 19 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 20 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 21 | Other times I think , ‘ What am I doing this for , I could be sitting at home with my feet up . ’ |
| 22 | In other ways I suppose I could be said to prosper tolerably well . |
| 23 | I could be a mean bastard at times . |
| 24 | ‘ I was about as low as I could be . |
| 25 | I wish I could be more enthusiastic about Jane Eaglen 's Mathilde , especially as I was so disappointed by her Scottish Opera Brunnhilde . |
| 26 | My registrar can take my clinic — it 's a small one — so I could be with you from three until four-thirty if you like . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd be satisfied if I could be sure that you and I exist at this moment . ’ |
| 28 | I could be doing fine with a wee taste of it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The kids love having me here , they wish I could be here all the time . |
| 30 | Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ? |