Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 2 | I do not play golf , nor do I have any particular interest in the sport , so there was nothing I could teach Peter in the practical sense . |
| 3 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 4 | It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people . |
| 5 | You 'd think they 'd have the wit to send someone who could speak English . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Stapleton , who is almost back to full fitness after a close-season knee operation , brought Pearson in because he wanted someone who could take charge in training — and have the respect of the players . |
| 8 | It had to be someone who could follow instructions to make an effective bow and sharp arrows , who had time to lie in wait , who wanted me gone , who had a universe to lose . |
| 9 | Looking at her , you got the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half . |
| 10 | ‘ It is just impossible to understand the sick , perverted mentality of someone who could stab horses in this way , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 12 | Explanation : You should write down specifically the areas in which you could see improvements ( or deterioration ) . |
| 13 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 14 | He thought his opening effort was very respectable , but there was nobody who could touch Brand . |
| 15 | He realized that he was somebody who could control people . |
| 16 | Well it was somebody who could work horses I suppose . |
| 17 | William Hill make Richard Hannon 's ‘ pocket rocket ’ clear favourite for the Group Two event , in which she could face challenges from Wolfhound , Paris House and Zieten . |
| 18 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 19 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 20 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 21 | The two were now inside the grille together and Mena Iskander had been given strict instructions to try to secure Miss Postlethwaite a seat from which she could see Zoser clearly and if possible his wife as well . |
| 22 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 23 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 24 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 25 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 26 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 27 | Wealthy party members , including newspaper owners and businessmen , saw McCarthy as a weapon with which they could ensure victory in 1952 , and backed the Senator financially . |
| 28 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |
| 29 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 30 | Predictably , they took the parts from which they could make money . |