Example sentences of "he could of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 2 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 3 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 4 | Civilians were fleeing and the Commissioner for the Dockyard sought leave of the Admiralty to destroy all that he could of the yard to prevent it falling into enemy hands . |
| 5 | He could of course simply walk out on some pretext — visiting a friend . |
| 6 | Anything else he could of put in the hat Liam ? |
| 7 | So he could of put a little bit in about how he ran back |
| 8 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 9 | He could of done . |
| 10 | He also learned all he could of the ground and the way it shaped the wind , because command of the wind meant command of flight and that meant dominance and security . |
| 11 | A few would talk and from them he learned what he could of the north-west . |
| 12 | Indeed a modern zoologist would probably find that he could accept almost as much of Wilberforce 's argument as he could of Darwin 's . |
| 13 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 14 | The distinguished personage known as the Coroner 's Serjeant ( with a ‘ j ’ ) had been willing to sacrifice what he could of his time if the interests of Justice ( capital ‘ J ’ ) were really being served . |
| 15 | He had a cup of tea , he listened to their story and took down what description he could of the intruders . |
| 16 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 17 | He then , after missing , goes on to say how he could of killed it but it was too big a step to be taking . |
| 18 | He could of . |
| 19 | He could of done |
| 20 | with he , he , I mean he could of beat er , it , could n't he ? |
| 21 | So he , when he came in he could of gone round that way and talked to you , or gone round that way and talked to Louise ? |
| 22 | Yes , well he could of gone a bit further back , it would n't of mattered to him . |
| 23 | he could of done that in his fourth year and his third year |
| 24 | A and why do you think I have n't said anything cos he could of gone up ! |
| 25 | He could of swapped with me |
| 26 | What 's he travelling all that way for that , he could of gone to Doddington market , get the same effect could n't ya ? |
| 27 | You know perhaps he could of on . |
| 28 | through drink he could of been a really brilliant football player he could of made a lot of money and |
| 29 | through drink he could of been a really brilliant football player he could of made a lot of money and |
| 30 | well he was and he could of had a secure future |