Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean perhaps it could take the form of Adult Attendance Centres , but erm we need something which is seen to be punitive but which falls sort of full deprivation of erm liberty . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm masquerading , playing fashion games , ’ she whispered so they could all hear , ‘ unlike ma belle Katherine , who will never feel the need to . |
| 3 | And he got so he could gradually do without it and he never stuttered again . |
| 4 | This meant that we had to find somewhere I could manage on my own and that was centrally located , because I could not walk far . |
| 5 | The appeal at the school that Mrs was supposed to have let Miss White know so she could send it off to the parents to get the money back scanner |
| 6 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 7 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 8 | George moved so she could get out of the chair . |
| 9 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 10 | Fully dressed , midnight butterfly in this light of day , we hold each other , grind , baby , grind so I could take a chunk out of your neck by way of breakfast . |
| 11 | Just so much easier to get just to know that if ever like you know , eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself , in an hour . |
| 12 | If you do n't know now you could find out . ’ |
| 13 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 14 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 15 | As he drew closer he could see the outlines of people sitting down under the shade of a tree near the river . |
| 16 | When I got downstairs I could see the drawing-room light was on so I thought they must still be up , I 'll go and see if they want a snack . |
| 17 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 18 | But Richard Fleming says eventually we could home produce all the charcoal we need . |
| 19 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 20 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So do I. I liked the way she muttered so you could hardly hear when she was being funny . |
| 22 | These changes may seem small on paper , but added together they could be quite fundamental ’ , added Rutherford . |
| 23 | We needed a single set of business figures and measures we could monitor so we could focus the quality initiatives . |
| 24 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |
| 25 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 26 | We felt we had done all we could there for the moment and did n't want to get lazy . |
| 27 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 28 | Mr Baker also claimed the Government had done all it could to make cars safe . |
| 29 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 30 | He had done all he could here , but instinct warned him that it would be a mistake to go home . |