Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 2 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 3 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 4 | For a second she could only gaze at him , completely at a loss . |
| 5 | I mean if you were being really dangerous and you wanted to die soon you could just sort of get a piece of bare wire and |
| 6 | You could just sort of tuck it in here under her waistband . |
| 7 | But , you know you could just George . |
| 8 | You could , you could seat if you did , sort of classroom seating in there a , room this size in that , er , you could , you could probably seat six hundred people . |
| 9 | During the next 60 seconds it will induce feelings of warmth.You will feel as if you have everything you could possibly want.Let these feelings fill your whole consciousness.These effects are n't permanent . |
| 10 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 11 | you could actually sort of talk about , right a full time centre is ten half day sessions , two full time centre equals twenty half day sessions |
| 12 | We could always farm things out to freelances . |
| 13 | Er we moved over to using ASCII so that we could actually hand edit them and and look at them . |
| 14 | As for his arm , she decided , it could just fester and drop off as far as she was concerned . |
| 15 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 16 | He could just beef-up . |
| 17 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 18 | Yet he could hardly finesse or cost-cut his way out of a serious downturn there . |