Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 2 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 3 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 4 | Knowing you were n't , that maybe you 'd taken my advice and gone off to find somebody who could love you back , left me in turmoil . |
| 5 | While the Wordsworths began to explore a landscape which seemed , in Dorothy 's opinion , to contain everything she could want , Coleridge remained very unwillingly at home . |
| 6 | Up yours , I thought and got my head down to extract everything I could . |
| 7 | There was still over an hour to go before his rendezvous with Rose and he decided to walk around the jewellers ' shops to find something he could afford . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , no writer , however self-sufficient , writes without a thought of an audience , and Tolkien was happy to discover anyone who could appreciate what he was up to . |
| 9 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 10 | A fortnight ago , she had been too taken aback by the idea to absorb what it could imply , but before anything was fixed there were matters which she and Vitor must discuss , parameters to be defined , agreements which needed to be cut and dried . |
| 11 | If they want to meet us I could see no objections ’ . |
| 12 | Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger . |
| 13 | J.D. had told Sally-Anne Tunstall that if it was inconvenient to visit him she could always post her column to him ; he had seen her growing more and more responsible as the weeks went by , and he was no longer so worried about her safety . |
| 14 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 15 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 16 | It was his intention to shoot what they could , mostly the scenes involving Karloff because his were the only words Corman had written . |
| 17 | Putting his arm around his wife 's shoulder , he added : ‘ When I came down the drive to see you I could n't think of a good reason to give you for splitting up . |
| 18 | But again , they do n't , and Joyce is enabling us to hear something we could not hear outside his novel . |
| 19 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 20 | Cos if Pam do n't know what to buy him she could buy him one of them or two of them or whatever she |
| 21 | For audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse it is difficult to imagine anyone who could portray the bored middle-aged housewife so well . |
| 22 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 23 | She then becomes a statue and the other guests try to imagine what she could be doing . |
| 24 | After that , they broke in and began to steal whatever they could carry away — little things at first , like crockery and silver , but later on the furniture went as well . |
| 25 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 26 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 27 | ‘ Hello , ’ Myra said again , and Claudia managed to answer , asking her to do everything she could to get an address or phone number if Dana got in touch with her . |
| 28 | He said he hoped that if he had to do it he could count on me . |
| 29 | And you see is Margaret , when Gerry used to do it I could change my mind half way |
| 30 | But that had been for women with no man to protect them , so they had to do whatever they could and were respected for it . |