Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I says I would n't phone in , I 'd let you know and you could do it and I 'll pay you myself , I do n't mind , you know , losing a day 's pay . |
| 2 | And then you could go for a swim over , go and do his suit and you could have a swim at Guildford . |
| 3 | We used to do speed and stuff and I could never get to sleep because they 'd always be in my bed — it was like having kittens in the house . |
| 4 | He could feel and he could think but he could n't connect the two . |
| 5 | ‘ This team will improve and we could expect to finish round about eighth in the Premier League without buying a player . ’ |
| 6 | While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 8 | There was a time when your hairdryer or moisturiser would mysteriously disappear and you could be pretty certain of catching your man red handed — pinching your beauty products ! |
| 9 | The two sides of the equation did not balance and she could hardly bear the implications of that . |
| 10 | And then in the night when it was dark , the old keeper used to come there , open the top of the lid and shut the door , because she was in a she was in a loft do you see , above the kennels , with er an iron er ladder going up and down you see , and then shut the door on her there do you see and she could get in and out then from the chest . |
| 11 | I did n't even notice that , but I did notice her across the road at Mrs and know so right she 'd been there I just did n't notice where she went , but I heard the bell ring and I could see this anorak through there and me mind thought Mrs , perhaps it 's Mrs but then when I saw this this lady well I just did n't know what to think really . |
| 12 | Do this in a clockwise direction , not anticlockwise or they will unscrew and you could have a length of drain rod stuck down the drain — as well as the original blockage ! |
| 13 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 14 | And I could hear and I could hear and I turned the light on and it would n't come on ! |
| 15 | The winds , temperatures and humidity can change and you could be in your best shape , but the wind is against you . |
| 16 | At a stroke , the need for 300 staff in the health benefit unit could end and they could be redeployed to improve other parts of the service . |
| 17 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 18 | Again there 's a lot of other evidence that Freud does n't mention and he could have done like the Ark . |
| 19 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 20 | I could , I could go and I could go and take if there 's , you know , if they have n't , no nothing awful 's to them I could go and take some pics of those . |
| 21 | They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come . |
| 22 | The horse could shy and there could be a fatal accident . |
| 23 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 24 | If only her stomach would settle and she could face eating again perhaps she would feel less tired and her nerves less ragged . |
| 25 | He could n't sing and he could n't write songs . |