Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [verb] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the import of the " new " sense of design which I have hypothesised could be developed from these sketches is its interaction with social forces — literally its forming of them . |
| 2 | The science project to which I have referred could be a great flagship for Welsh industry , for Welsh commerce and for British science generally . |
| 3 | Everything I have done could be for him . |
| 4 | Even companies like M&S have to do it from time : warn customers that something they 've bought could be dangerous and needs to be returned , either for repairing or a cash refund . |
| 5 | Every nerve had been strained in the effort to prompt Lou 's memory but what she had learned could do little to prove Barney 's innocence . |
| 6 | They talked in low voices , pausing when the waiter put food before them , as if whatever they had to say could not be shared , even by a discreet French boy with an imperfect grasp of English . |
| 7 | What he had to say could wait until morning . |
| 8 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 9 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |