Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were seven or eight we could clear the place up as good as my Mum … but I 've seen some girls — like my aunt 's little girl and she 's fifteen , she 's just hopeless . |
| 2 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 3 | They are often the same person or principal it could be either in divisional quality manager or procedure |
| 4 | If they were younger and one of the partners was disabled , infirm , or sick they could live together , but the arrangement had to be reported to the Minister . |
| 5 | A. If you find a house or flat you could buy but ca n't get a large enough building society or bank mortgage , the local authority may be able to help in the following ways : |
| 6 | I had to or all I could go somewhere else . |
| 7 | He and other psychoanalysts have relied on dreams recollected during therapy sessions , or those they could recall themselves . |
| 8 | There are one or two we could do without , but that 's always the case ! |
| 9 | For a moment or two they could n't understand what was happening . |
| 10 | It 's only this last day or two I could speak about him so . |
| 11 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 12 | For a moment or two I could neither breathe nor move . |
| 13 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 14 | Because this study was designed to facilitate the interpretation of recognition results a fundamental distinction was made between information which would be shared by all exemplars of a particular junction ( fixed information ) and that which could potentially differ between exemplars ( variable information ) , the assumption was that the fixed information would be relatively unimportant to recognition performance . |
| 15 | This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality . |
| 16 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 17 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 18 | They saw her sometimes , watching them from the hillside as they carried peats or hay , wood or baskets of fish that they 'd not sell her ; and each one could feel the chill as she silently vowed vengeance on them all . |
| 19 | Every colour moon you could imagine ( and some you could n't ) . |
| 20 | This would compel West Indians to produce more economically , and this they could only do by moving towards free labour and engaging the labourers ' personal material interests in their work . |
| 21 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 22 | as I say because of my health and one thing and another you could n't just and he , and he was really good he was and explained everything to me I say that |
| 23 | Thereafter she marvelled continually at how animated and funny he could be . |
| 24 | I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with . |
| 25 | And these I could n't get up this morning thought about . |
| 26 | If you have a kitchen/dining room and want to make it look particularly warm and comfortable you could make a visual division between working and eating areas by stapling the dining walls with a cheap cotton treated with a protective spray . |
| 27 | The weather was foul and despite all attempts by the owner to make the property look nice and homely she could n't quite hide the rainwater dripping through ceilings , black mould on walls with associated smells , or its generally poor condition . |
| 28 | Almost immediately the safety glass shattered and all they could see were white chips . |
| 29 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 30 | So there was no entrance there and all they could do was clear by the main lodge . |