Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | These men should have gone off duty at twelve but he was able to dismiss only two of them whom he could replace with experienced men from the afternoon shift . |
| 2 | He was about to join his companions on the balcony when someone whom he could not see touched his arm and told him he was needed somewhere else . |
| 3 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 4 | the reasons I said I I I I could go along with that approach as well . |
| 5 | And I nearly said , but I did n't , I I I could have said , well , look what she got er out of her her husband . |
| 6 | Well I I I could but all |
| 7 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 8 | There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on . |
| 9 | Alternatively , some bicycles have an odometer on them which you could use in the same way . |
| 10 | * Use technical terms only when you are going to say something with them which you could n't say without them ( see pp. 81 – 2 ) . |
| 11 | She realised that there would be no light-hearted understanding in Cramer of actions for which she herself could find no easily articulated justification . |
| 12 | Does the little old lady , the widow , the pensioner , the schoolgirl know that her precious pound is going into a ‘ management ’ meal at a five-star restaurant , the inside of which she herself could never afford in her wildest dreams ? |
| 13 | Alternately , this interest might demonstrate the excitement and enjoyment gained from reading about and watching that which we ourselves could not or would not do ; a sort of substituted excitement . |
| 14 | As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster . |
| 15 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 16 | Yeah you say you you you could go probably weeks and never go into it . |
| 17 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 18 | ‘ I show you something which could change the face of your world , ’ he said , ‘ but it does not impress you . ’ |
| 19 | This fabulous resort , a mere twenty minutes from the recently-opened Holdana International Airport , offers you everything you could want from a holiday — and more ! |
| 20 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 21 | I tell you what we could do , though . |
| 22 | Shall we try I tell you what we could try now we could try connecting with somebody else . |
| 23 | I tell you what we could do cos Mr might have to stay . |
| 24 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 25 | I tell you what you could do , which would be useful for me as well |
| 26 | Yeah , I tell you what you could take this to school for me . |
| 27 | But I 'll tell you what I could do , if you like . ’ |
| 28 | I tell you what I could n't find Elaine |
| 29 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 30 | Tell you what I could do if I had something like U equals sine T or if |