Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 2 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 3 | ‘ A great deal , ’ Hari spoke with more confidence than she felt , indeed , she was trembling inside and she could only hope her nervousness did n't show . |
| 4 | The vehicles drew alongside and I could see their amber lights through the canvas and hear slamming doors and excited friendly voices . |
| 5 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 6 | There was another great big box but instead of being up high it was down below and I could easily |
| 7 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 8 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 9 | How much longer would she have to sit with these women before Philip came in and they could decently go home ? |
| 10 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 11 | Okay well er I I figure that there must be quite a number of er extraterrestrials around around North Yorkshire and I thought it would be quite nice actually if er if there are any extraterrestrials listening at the moment they could ring in and we could have a chat . |
| 12 | I still feel it is a dangerous proposition to be in and we could end up in a situation where development comes to a full stop . |
| 13 | I 'm telling you all this , and perhaps you do n't have to erm pay for any of these treatments we do gift vouchers , so if you 've got anybody who wants to buy you a gift of any sort , you could always say well , I fancy erm an eyebrow trim , or I fancy a pedicure perhaps they would like to buy you a gift voucher and then you can come in and it could be a present for you . |
| 14 | Initially I wanted to be in Kabul should there be an offensive , then reality began setting in and I could see that they were n't going to take a village , let alone a capital . ’ |
| 15 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 16 | Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 17 | You think that 's where they pushed him in and you could be right . ’ |
| 18 | That was like er er what you call a linseed oil , they call is text that 's some animal 's erm oil I think out of the house and cos they used to , used to rub that in and you could them down lovely . |
| 19 | so I got four more , had a look round thought I saw it , but Traygo was heaving I tried to park by the erm garden centre , but to not only were there people all parked there , there was a great articulated lorry delivering stuff , so you went in and you could n't even then get out , go and park further up |
| 20 | Safety is also an important factor when stretching with a partner ; he does not know how much pain you are in and he could inadvertently overstretch you . |
| 21 | It was ten to fifteen feet , it was getting dark , he had lost his board , and he could n't get in and he could n't get out . |
| 22 | Richard opened slowly and then the cock was in and he could see only Martin 's glistening blond hair between his legs . |
| 23 | as if the night was coming in and he could n't stop it . |
| 24 | The ground floor windows were low enough to look in and he could see into the-little office , which was empty . |
| 25 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 26 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 27 | We , we , we , we threw , we threw it out into the garden and these birds swooped down and they could n't take off ! |
| 28 | There 's absolutely no reason why , if we provide the correct habitat , they should n't move down and we could have otters in the Thames region perhaps within the next 10 years . |
| 29 | There she would remain in seclusion until the commotion had died down and she could live openly and in safety with her young lord . |
| 30 | He 'd pulled the zip of his black ski-suit right down and she could see the fleecy red thermals he had on underneath . |