Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | the reasons I said I I I I could go along with that approach as well . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well I I I could but all |
| 5 | She realised that there would be no light-hearted understanding in Cramer of actions for which she herself could find no easily articulated justification . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah you say you you you could go probably weeks and never go into it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | But you know we we we we could n't get the we could n't get the paperwork done that quickly . |
| 13 | Well with this stuff , they could n't do that and then they they they their stomach used to get compacted the they they they could n't er could n't er get their cud up and caused a lot of stomach trouble . |
| 14 | Co when our Carl was showing it me I could n't believe it ! |
| 15 | The chap is very very experienced , he knows what he 's doing and he 's he you you could n't ask for a better worker really but yes d I I do believe he 's got a problem with his eyesight . |
| 16 | And he never got into the pits , so Les and he was er was a very fine Marxist that he he he could tell you anything you know about Marxism . |
| 17 | you see the thing is Paul what you I could help you do is there are several modern buildings round here which we could investigate . |