Example sentences of "[pron] could do [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You work it out in stages , little bits , and then you add the bits together and then you add the bits together , so you say , well I could do a hundred times seventeen and then I could do ones times seventeen . |
| 2 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 3 | Th'did n't know I could do tricks did thee ? |
| 4 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 5 | She could do wonders here , turn the area around this beautifully designed barn into something special . |
| 6 | But in theory you could do posters here at Mansfield and you could send out , we could print them in colour for you |
| 7 | And that , if you 've done erm bum bum bum digging into history that you could do coordinates and coordinate patterns . |
| 8 | I did n't realise you could do resits actually . |
| 9 | I know he 's dead and that , but we could do things like , I du n no , like when you put flowers on someone 's grave when they died . |
| 10 | I want to see the er possibility of British Rail being able to say , well you know we could improve our act , we could do things differently , and er we we wou we have experience of running a railway , and therefore , you know , please let us bid . |
| 11 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 12 | In reality , however , the Russians ' ’ higher , culture was represented in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by soldiers ( men of service ) and colonial administrators out for personal gain , and by peasants , whose building-tools were of the simplest — the axe , gouge and spokeshave ( although they could do wonders with these ) . |
| 13 | They did n't even know I could sing , but they said they could do things to my voice . |
| 14 | But bodyboarders knew they could do things with waves boardwalkers could only dream of . |
| 15 | They could do things by thumb and come out within a thou . |
| 16 | Joe did n't see a great deal of his dad during the year , with his trips abroad and everything , so they used to reserve at least one day when they could do things together . ’ |
| 17 | That boosted its price substantially but it could do things that no other printer was capable of so the added value made it well worth it . |
| 18 | He could do somersaults and cartwheels and he could walk on his hands carrying a plate of Eccles cakes on one foot . |
| 19 | And in a worse position than because the North they 've never done any deals , never seen anybody , national accounts , done nothing in that area in terms of deals and negotiations and things like that and it was only six months ago that where could actually find out he could do deals . |