Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 2 | I could barely boil an egg . |
| 3 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 4 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 5 | Yes , we 've covered various subjects er more than once , er so much so that er I would be much obliged if you would er focus on a particular instance that I could then have an opportunity to recall . |
| 6 | She 's got so much tuna she could bloody start an aquarium up . |
| 7 | You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 9 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 10 | Thus we could simply require an absence of relevant falsehood . |
| 11 | At least if it were pitch black we could really get an idea of what it will be like to ‘ walk through the Channel Tunnel ’ . |
| 12 | Broadly , of course , it meant pro-Russian or pro-Communist but it could also mean an opponent of big business or of big unionism or a proponent of birth control or atheism . |
| 13 | It could either launch an offensive against Khiva or gradually pacify Kazakhstan by constructing forts and attempting to persuade Khiva that its behaviour was ill judged . |
| 14 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |
| 16 | He could never see an engine without laying a spanner on it . |
| 17 | He could seldom resist an invitation to address a learned society , a university , a county or regional association , a professional body , indeed any gathering of apparently public-spirited gentlemen brought together for non-commercial purposes . |
| 18 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 19 | With a little bit of luck he could still make an impact in an important event . |
| 20 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 21 | He would keep Eleanor on tap for these occasions by writing the odd letter and by making the odd phone call too , when he could quietly use an office phone . |