Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the converters is that th the er commutators on the converters got in a bad state and er the engin the er Mr asked me what could you do with them . |
| 2 | ‘ So she met someone who could seemingly give her all the things I was n't able to . ’ |
| 3 | In 1976 , the film Ilsa , She-wolf of the SS was brought before the courts of New York State on a charge of obscenity , but the case was dismissed because the judge found nothing which could properly be covered by the Miller test , no ‘ lewd exhibition of the genitals ’ , no representations of ‘ ultimate sexual acts , normal or perverted ’ . |
| 4 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 5 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | The thin man shouted something she could n't hear . |
| 7 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 8 | Ryker shot an angry glance at Donna and mouthed something she could n't make out . |
| 9 | However , they confiscated everything they could lay their hands on , even the bed he was lying on , to sell them in order to pay the fine . |
| 10 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 11 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 12 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ said Bridget , ‘ they held him all weekend , and tried everything they could think of to make him confess . |
| 14 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried everything I could to keep Kearney alive , ’ he added . |
| 16 | He tried everything he could think of to tempt the Bookman into showing himself . |
| 17 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 18 | At the start we used to copy each other and bounce off each other all the time , and I really gleaned everything I could . |
| 19 | When he himself entered it he could n't see him ahead or on either side , although in most places the bracken and undergrowth was flat . |
| 20 | Anyway , if I changed it who could tell what other inaccuracies might creep in . |
| 21 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 22 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 23 | People changed whatever they could and learned to cover their asses even more skilfully . |
| 24 | The Air Step , which retails for £395.00 , demonstrated what it could do , when tested over eight weeks by a group of army recruits . |
| 25 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 26 | Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more . |
| 27 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 28 | A few moments later she appeared again and told them they could go in . |
| 29 | Mr Marshall told them you could forecast the weather with pine cones . |
| 30 | ‘ I told them you could be quite helpful because you knew someone who had traced her natural mother . ’ |