Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr Gorbachev believed he could acquire a breathing space through repression , during which the economy could be transformed by unpopular but necessary reforms , he might be willing to pay the price , but this would reverse his strategy of the past three years . |
| 2 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 3 | After skiing the last section of the Vallee Blanche Nigel decided we could avoid a walk into Chamonix by skiing down a snow chute filled with avalanche debris . |
| 4 | Rincewind thought he could see a faint streak in the air , as if something from the mountain had reached out and touched the beast . |
| 5 | Old Crumwallis said I could have a glass of sherry . |
| 6 | Elaine wished she could have a marriage like that . |
| 7 | But with a bit of money spent you could have a nice little spinney there — be pretty in the spring . |
| 8 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 9 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 10 | As Bob Merryfield was having his dram Charlie broached the subject of rabbits and Parkinson said he could have a pair , as a number had been shot the previous day . |
| 11 | Jack said you could hide a small army in the various wardrobes around the house . |
| 12 | At least Kathleen 's cooking meant she could manage a passable display of unconcerned eating , time to gather her wits a little … |
| 13 | By embracing pragmatism , functionalists felt they could adopt a legal method without necessarily absorbing the more optimistic beliefs of the evolutionists about the inevitability of progress . |
| 14 | Through his maternal grandmother , Jones fancied he could trace a distinguished ancestry back to the Norman conquest , but he grew up in straitened circumstances , and money remained a problem throughout his life . |
| 15 | ‘ In the sixteenth century , doctors thought they could tell a person 's health by looking into their eyes — I like to see a man 's soul ’ ; such souls as he finds in the Saracen 's Head and other pubs . |
| 16 | While a kettle boiled she could set a table , light a fire , and watch over a cooking breakfast . |
| 17 | And through the star 's casual bonhomie at rehearsals , Charles thought he could detect a growing panic as the awful realisation dawned . |
| 18 | Mrs O'Hara said she could see a gunman kneeling in the hallway firing into the room , and another gunman further along the hall . |
| 19 | Yeah when I get my printer mum said I could write a book . |
| 20 | Far more pertinent was the fact that Mendoros thought he could see a gap in a market about which he knew a great deal , and which he reckoned could best be filled from the UK . |
| 21 | The patient said he could feel a surge of energy run through his body ‘ like a tingling sensation ’ . |
| 22 | Masha and Sergei said they could eat a sandwich . |
| 23 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
| 24 | ‘ The victims thought they could trust a doctor . |
| 25 | Clare thought she could rest a while here . |
| 26 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |