Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street a block or two , she found a spot under a grocer 's awning where she could pore over the map . |
| 2 | In ‘ Fighting talk ’ the two are tied together in the nostalgic account of an idyllic childhood landscape , all large back gardens and open public spaces , where you could mooch about for as long as you wanted . |
| 3 | What 's point three , well it 's about the cube root of three , or you could sort of try cube root of three |
| 4 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 5 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 6 | Or they could mill it by hand . |
| 7 | Or they could fork to the right , up Once Hill , past the rectory and on to the steep , narrow road that wound over the downs to Badstoneleigh , off which the entrance gates of Sea House opened . |
| 8 | I I I I think that 's one of the options that I could sort of er I could still be the li , cleaner over here . |
| 9 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |
| 10 | I took a mug of coffee up to the pathologist so I could earwig what was going down . |
| 11 | ‘ I do remember buying books of halfpenny tickets , so I could practice on my own in addition to the visits with the school . |
| 12 | But there , from any notes , she felt that she could piece together what had taken place . |
| 13 | None the less her experiences with those other professionals led her to believe that she could nut affect the result of their deliberations . |
| 14 | She squatted down to his level , and he stuck his chin up in the air so that she could rebutton his coat for him . |
| 15 | Big osier ones , flat , that you could crook over your arm or set on the ground . |
| 16 | Nobody expects me to say that you could gig with either of these amps , do they ? |
| 17 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 18 | I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window . |
| 19 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
| 20 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 21 | We need a room with a ceramic tiled floor , a central drain , so that we could hose it down . ’ |
| 22 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 23 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
| 24 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
| 25 | Before 1918 electors could have more than one vote , provided that they could quality in different towns or counties ; it was now proposed by Unionists that the qualifying area in boroughs should become the constituency rather than the borough itself . |
| 26 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 27 | BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers . |
| 28 | The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor . |
| 29 | Powerless to stop the violation , the peacekeepers then watched Croatian Serbs break into UN-guarded storage areas to remove their heavy weapons so they could retaliate. — Reuter |
| 30 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |