Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could bring them round to you later . ’ |
| 2 | I thought that way I could bring them together . |
| 3 | I wish I could flush them out of my head . |
| 4 | Well not even I could heard them I was in the second row . |
| 5 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 6 | But the family were often sad , and I wished I could make them happy . |
| 7 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 8 | He knew as he could come to me er he used to bring me lock keys of all sorts and er he could get the castings or the patterns or what it is like that and he knows I could fashion them to fit the lock and all that sort of thin and we were very |
| 9 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 10 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 11 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |
| 12 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 13 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I could do them on the train to the City some morning every week . ’ |
| 15 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 17 | I could feel them getting restive . |
| 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 | When the next spawning took place , I was ready with a new tank for the adults , so I could move them straight away . |
| 20 | You 've got your questions and of course I could answer them Nicodemus I could tell the why 's and the wherefore 's of this , and of that , I could give you all the details and all the the the things that you want to know but , they 're not really important the real issue for you , Nicodemus , is that you have got to be born again ! |
| 21 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 22 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 23 | It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m . |
| 24 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't too keen on two or three of the swear words , ’ he said , ‘ and I asked if I could leave them out . |
| 26 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 27 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 28 | Or instead of washing them away down my mythical hillside , I could give them a decent burial in a sod of cancer graveyard , perhaps with a little cross over it . |
| 29 | If only there was a piano , I could give them " Rock of Ages ' when the time comes , he said to himself . |
| 30 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |