Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps you could patent it . |
| 3 | So you could steam them off and slap them out again . |
| 4 | Perhaps we could minute Mr 's point , just to make him happy . |
| 5 | so they could mainline words . |
| 6 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 7 | If he got in early enough he could lunch with George . |
| 8 | If you move quickly you could bag this one — jam it into the specimen bottle and whip it off to the Society for Psychical Research prontissimo ! |
| 9 | yeah , and he wants to , he came home this morning and he said , he must of been thinking about it , and he said well we could emulsion the walls , he said erm , why do n't we do an apricot white , I says well that 's peach , I said the |
| 10 | Here one could instance people who go to the theatre as opposed to theatre administrators , people who read books rather than people in publishing , selling or lending . |
| 11 | Maybe she could coast for a little while . |
| 12 | So maybe you could sort of go back and think which one of these would possibly give me calcium carbonate , well that Good chance it might you know have a guess , that this one |
| 13 | Play in pairs , it 's different but when you 're just playing singles , you can say or maybe you could sort of friends that go , you 'd probably say something like , are you sure ? |
| 14 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
| 15 | ‘ I was thinking maybe we could sort of … get in this bag , sort of thing , ’ said Masklin . |
| 16 | The difficulty is if we move to something , er , which is supply based as is being suggested , then it could impact even , even greater and so there 's no perfect er , system for this , but there 's got to be a better way . |