Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you invite me nothing could keep me away . ’ |
| 2 | I said and I have a feeling that there was somebody there watching me I could feel it . |
| 3 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 4 | They told me I could do it in Italian . |
| 5 | If Brook Street had n't convinced me I could do it , my confidence was so low I think I might have turned it down , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Oh I have a wee store , yes , but you see you do n't carry them , I do n't carry them with me , if I carried them with me I could sing I could , well that 's it , |
| 7 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 8 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 9 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 10 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 11 | Half of me wanted to ‘ wow ’ everyone with how good I looked — show them I could do it , be thin if I wanted — but half of me also wanted them not to notice . |
| 12 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 13 | So he said I I do n't want to keep you , and I I could see what struggle it was for him to come a er so often in the bad weather , that er I I started the same idea . |
| 14 | I thought that at last I 'd found someone I could share my life with . |
| 15 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 16 | In the darkness I felt in the hands of God , someone who could do anything He liked with me , even though that someone was more likely to be Mr Slieman , the manager , who with his pencil moustache looked more like a used car salesman and was constantly trying to show Louise , the cashier and kiosk girl , his collection of prophylactics . |
| 17 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 18 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 19 | Someone who could draw your attention without being seen . |
| 20 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 21 | She did n't look like someone who could poison what she touched , whatever she might think . |
| 22 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 23 | Amanda Tooth said that hard times made Antonia set her sights on someone who could help her make a name . |
| 24 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 25 | Pupils ' general knowledge about sizes of units and the relationships among them which could assist them to get a " feel " for numbers and help them decide whether measurements were reasonable , was lacking . |
| 26 | They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up . |
| 27 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 28 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 29 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
| 30 | 2 Think of ways in which you could change it to make it really different : funnier more exciting or dramatic stranger 3 Think the story through in your head . |