Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 2 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 3 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 4 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 5 | One girl was a hard , chain-smoking sales machine letting me know I could not set up a multi-national congress without multi-national advertising . |
| 6 | If you 'd have let me know I could have |
| 7 | I mean nothing could catch my imagination fantasy . |
| 8 | I mean they could could n't they sponsor us to do it or something ? |
| 9 | I mean they could give you a decent stand to put it in cos I hate those ones at Sainsbury 's . |
| 10 | Well when they put the flats up , I mean they could n't keep pets , and they had n't got a garden , and there was a period of time when er we were rather concerned . |
| 11 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 12 | it 'll be different if he were here I mean they could , he 'd take her all over would n't he and every weekend he 'd take her |
| 13 | Mind you , like I said Stuart I was in the bar and and if I did n't like it I could of gone in the lounge so I mean they could n't ha he would n't have it . |
| 14 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |
| 15 | I mean they could have gone , look how long Aberech station , er platform is . |
| 16 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 17 | I mean we could all spend all day discussing that particular issue but up until the decision is made and which road they 're gon na go down we do know it 's gon na be banding but on what on what basis is it gon na be ? |
| 18 | I mean we could get all of our tal you know all of our sort of public educational informative talks this week if all of those pan out could n't we ? |
| 19 | Oh yeah right well I mean we could leave that to our representatives if you like erm to erm to cater for those those milkmen erm in the same way as the milkmen . |
| 20 | I mean we could rejig things and charge sort of sixty or seventy percent of Rachel 's time against the graduates and then charge that back off |
| 21 | Yeah , I mean we could we 'll do it cheap we could do it cheap and I could work that out in a private way . |
| 22 | I mean we could get about , we got about alright . |
| 23 | What 's a m I mean we could easily say it 's |
| 24 | I mean we could load one if you want to play . |
| 25 | I mean we could have a talk . ’ |
| 26 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 27 | I mean we could sense a goal was coming . |
| 28 | What factor I mean we could become self sufficient in all our , in all our manufactured goods . |
| 29 | I mean we could we could give you the P A for the |
| 30 | I mean we could well be the exercise that we embark on , could actually eliminate sectors around York . |