Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the converters is that th the er commutators on the converters got in a bad state and er the engin the er Mr asked me what could you do with them . |
| 2 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 3 | ‘ So she met someone who could seemingly give her all the things I was n't able to . ’ |
| 4 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 5 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 6 | This large collection contains nothing which could n't be found in the libraries of a major city such as Middenheim or Altdorf ( allow any scholarly type an Int test to realize this ) , except for the Chaos/heresy works , which would be restricted-access in the temples . |
| 7 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 8 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 9 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 10 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | Knowing you were n't , that maybe you 'd taken my advice and gone off to find somebody who could love you back , left me in turmoil . |
| 12 | I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you . |
| 13 | yeah , I do n't know who I could ask though really , Joe Bloggs up the street |
| 14 | While the Wordsworths began to explore a landscape which seemed , in Dorothy 's opinion , to contain everything she could want , Coleridge remained very unwillingly at home . |
| 15 | Up yours , I thought and got my head down to extract everything I could . |
| 16 | The thin man shouted something she could n't hear . |
| 17 | There was still over an hour to go before his rendezvous with Rose and he decided to walk around the jewellers ' shops to find something he could afford . |
| 18 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 19 | Ryker shot an angry glance at Donna and mouthed something she could n't make out . |
| 20 | However , they confiscated everything they could lay their hands on , even the bed he was lying on , to sell them in order to pay the fine . |
| 21 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 22 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 23 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ said Bridget , ‘ they held him all weekend , and tried everything they could think of to make him confess . |
| 25 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried everything I could to keep Kearney alive , ’ he added . |
| 27 | He tried everything he could think of to tempt the Bookman into showing himself . |
| 28 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 29 | At the start we used to copy each other and bounce off each other all the time , and I really gleaned everything I could . |
| 30 | They are making a mistake because the Costa Brava has everything anyone could ever want — in large quantities . |