Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first began to meet and talk in 1963 , he was expecting to be offered a Cabinet post in education if Labour won and he could keep in step for long enough . |
| 2 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 3 | So I says I would n't phone in , I 'd let you know and you could do it and I 'll pay you myself , I do n't mind , you know , losing a day 's pay . |
| 4 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 5 | And he used to come and they could see him coming for he had to come in a cart . |
| 6 | Quinn wrapped one arm around the thin shoulders and remembered a day long ago in the jungles along the Mekong ; the first time he was ever in combat , and how he survived while others died , and how afterwards the sheer relief caused the tears to come and he could not stop them . |
| 7 | The Thames barrier was proved to work and there could well be tax cuts in the Spring , said Howe . |
| 8 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 9 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 10 | And then you could go for a swim over , go and do his suit and you could have a swim at Guildford . |
| 11 | Bobby 's father was dying and she could n't trace their son . |
| 12 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 13 | It 's an extension of what you do on stage and it became a full=time thing really , until after it stopped and he could change and get into the Diamond Dogs period and the other albums that he made . ’ |
| 14 | He had only to appear and she could feel her emotions bubbling to the surface . |
| 15 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 16 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving . |
| 18 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 19 | ‘ There 's something you ought to know and it could n't wait . ’ |
| 20 | If trouble did come , survival would depend on knowing who could be trusted and who could not . |
| 21 | Sometimes I 'd have to sit with her until she was sober enough to stand and I could shoulder her home , snapping a curt reply , ‘ It 's all right , I can take care of her , ’ to kind enquirers . |
| 22 | These were still available to twentieth-century American popular music , as analogous genres were to Bartók and Janáček ; but further , they could then become available also to European workers whose own cultural traditions had been much more nearly shattered and who could , by plugging into still vital transatlantic networks , renew or restart aspects appropriate to potential class-cultural formations . |
| 23 | Defence lawyer Tony Cinnamond said , however , that Wightman 's recollection of the events were hazy due to drink and it could have been that he struck her and her head banged against the wall . |
| 24 | While Robinson applauded the development , Boris Ford condemned the transition of the CNAA from a body simply working with institutions which had ‘ not yet been upgraded and which could not obtain a degree through a neighbouring university ’ and therefore working in tandem with the universities , to a body which had become ‘ a fully blown alternative to the university system ’ . |
| 25 | The tears threatened and she could not say the words . |
| 26 | The tigress is quick to surface when your young are threatened and I could face up to any bully to defend my own . |
| 27 | She was glad when her work was done and she could walk back to the farm , filling her lungs with the keen moorland air . |
| 28 | We used to do speed and stuff and I could never get to sleep because they 'd always be in my bed — it was like having kittens in the house . |
| 29 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 30 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |