Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] could [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
2 | ‘ Perhaps you could patent it . |
3 | So you could steam them off and slap them out again . |
4 | Show me where each term from so you could Thanks very much . |
5 | Perhaps we could minute Mr 's point , just to make him happy . |
6 | Well perhaps we could E T and and f we could fit into that . |
7 | so they could mainline words . |
8 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
9 | If he got in early enough he could lunch with George . |
10 | so he could prayers there on Sunday afternoon . |
11 | If you move quickly you could bag this one — jam it into the specimen bottle and whip it off to the Society for Psychical Research prontissimo ! |
12 | yeah , and he wants to , he came home this morning and he said , he must of been thinking about it , and he said well we could emulsion the walls , he said erm , why do n't we do an apricot white , I says well that 's peach , I said the |
13 | Or maybe I could guts it out with penicillin , from my personal supply . |
14 | Maybe she could coast for a little while . |
15 | So maybe you could sort of go back and think which one of these would possibly give me calcium carbonate , well that Good chance it might you know have a guess , that this one |
16 | Play in pairs , it 's different but when you 're just playing singles , you can say or maybe you could sort of friends that go , you 'd probably say something like , are you sure ? |
17 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
18 | I just ca n't imagine how you could rhythm if it 's like that I suppose you got ta s start with them all running but still |
19 | Again my my personal view is that I think phasing has got a lot a lot going for it but I do not know how you could phase current commitments , because after all those those are on the table now . |
20 | ‘ I was thinking maybe we could sort of … get in this bag , sort of thing , ’ said Masklin . |
21 | Much of the acreage in this round is closer to the coastline , and as such has many implications in terms of how it could impact upon fish spawning , local bird life , and even the Ministry of Defence in some cases . |
22 | The difficulty is if we move to something , er , which is supply based as is being suggested , then it could impact even , even greater and so there 's no perfect er , system for this , but there 's got to be a better way . |
23 | George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day . |
24 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
25 | He is dedicated , although he confesses there are occasions when he could practice harder . |
26 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |