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 . |