Example sentences of "[pron] could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 2 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 3 | But Claire said , ‘ I wish there was something I could do to help . ’ |
| 4 | I wish I could do that . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 6 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 7 | First things first though : I could do with a morning cup of coffee . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the least I could do . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 10 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 11 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 12 | Before I could do anything , two medics came sprinting along the path from the direction of the big house . |
| 13 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 14 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 15 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 16 | Sometimes I myself am not sure if I could do it . |
| 17 | I might as well get up — I could do with summat to eat , to tell the truth . |
| 18 | I could do with a hot drink or summat — I 'm froze . |
| 19 | To tell the truth , I could do with a pee , but I du n no where the toilet is . |
| 20 | I hope it do n't take me too long to get home — I could do with summat to eat . |
| 21 | I reckon I could do a job like that . |
| 22 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
| 23 | It 's pretty cold on the platform — I could do with getting warm . |
| 24 | I do n't feel too tired , but I could do with summat to eat . |
| 25 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 26 | The stewards inquired into the running of Yahoo and accepted Tom Morgan 's explanation that : ‘ He lost his action and did n't feel right and there was nothing else I could do but pull him up . ’ |
| 27 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 28 | I only wish I could do that . |
| 29 | I could do now , with the knowledge I have , but I could n't do it then . |
| 30 | ‘ I could do with a good laugh . ’ |