Example sentences of "[det] [pron] could " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes yes we were told that nothing could be done about it .
2 And Hereford was so blocked that nothing could move .
3 This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment .
4 There was really very little I could do actively to refute the charge of selfishness .
5 I thought my eyes must be starting out of my head , too , but there was little I could do ; I was trying the best I could to think of something distracting to say to Eric .
6 ‘ There was little I could do to set her mind at rest except be myself , but I think they feel comfortable with me now .
7 and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance .
8 For that I could have three separate weeks in Alpine chalets .
9 The last time I went there was in 1968 ; after that I could n't go there because I was a British citizen .
10 All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy .
11 After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift !
12 At times like that I could not care a toss for JTR and wondered why the hell I was in such a situation .
13 After that I could n't get rid of him .
14 It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’
15 If I could do that I could do anything , as a chef once said to me when I told him he had sprinkled sugar on a steak and kidney pie .
16 The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female .
17 And after that I could n't really get back into it .
18 After that I could n't see inside any more ; it was too bright .
19 While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it .
20 After that I could n't be touched , of course .
21 ‘ What has he got that I could n't give you ? ’ he asked in a dull tone that chilled Ruth more than if he had bawled at her .
22 it then for that lesson , but after that I could n't remember again how to do it
23 And I thought , if I got that I could give it to Irene and could go wedding .
24 Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here
25 whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche
26 I mean , for that I could have , do a lovely one for under , a reasonable price , and they 're going straight for the cord .
27 Well it depends how you want to deal with it , I mean erm , this , the , the , the I think it was just my idea last year of , of sort of erm sharing some of the load I think at that point and hoping that someone could perhaps take over , erm , this just says the following should be elected , A , Chair , B , Secretary and C , Treasurer , but erm
28 That someone could get half the question right .
29 So some them could be pre-educated anyway .
30 It 's funny how the mind works at a time like this I could n't hear anything so I called : ‘ Warton , Golf Zulu Sierra .
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