Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 2 | ‘ I could manage stockings out of what you 've given me . ’ |
| 3 | Always the message was the same : ‘ Child , I could set fire to green grass , but it would not burn . ’ |
| 4 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 5 | I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House . |
| 6 | My teacher , Mr Taylor , did tell us to do our talk on something we knew about , so I asked if I could bring Dawn in and tell the other kids about what I was doing . |
| 7 | I was stupid to think that I could bring reason and truth into their lives and thoughts . |
| 8 | I wonder if I could bring Mr Williamson back to the basic methodology of calculation of the overall requirement share . |
| 9 | ‘ If I did not believe I could lift Darlington I would not have taken the job . |
| 10 | Now if I were to mix some of that with another substance I could make printing ink . |
| 11 | Eventually I had the other repeat to make the three parts , so then I could make harmonies by playing along with the tape . ’ |
| 12 | I could make love to you in any room in the house , ’ he grinned . |
| 13 | If she does , I could make cakes for it , could n't I , and jam — ’ |
| 14 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 15 | ‘ I could make costumes . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Hold on , are you saying that , if I wanted to , I could make people do things , obey me and stuff ? ’ |
| 17 | I could watch telly and actually hear what Jim was saying in Neighbours . |
| 18 | If I could draw members attention to the supplementary papers erm and it 's page three which is the second report and it will become I will make it clear with regards to the er linking up of the two reports , both museums and Essex committee linked up to the museum registration . |
| 19 | Then the lady in charge asked if I could alter garments that were too long or too short and , mug that I am , I agreed . |
| 20 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 21 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
| 22 | Erm , I mean I could generate P H D theses for you by the dozen out of all this . |
| 23 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 24 | So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account . |
| 25 | As much as I could do south of the equator |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I can do I could do Carlisle |
| 29 | I could do park parade tha , a girl was , er er anywa , I went in the factory and one of the girls says they were saying about a dance , says ooh I quite a few you ought to see him dance the park parade ! |
| 30 | I could stay in the house and be marked as frightened , or I could do battle with the elements , making my way to the family as usual . |