Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | They told me I could do it in Italian . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 11 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 12 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 13 | Amanda Tooth said that hard times made Antonia set her sights on someone who could help her make a name . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of |
| 19 | Which you could turn you could legitimately turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard for all this support ? |
| 20 | that 's pretty , yeah grilled that 's really gruesome is n't it but you could , I mean really that 's the sort of ghastly thing people do is n't it in headlines which you could use it as you 've used the actual word Bacon 's in your headline you could play on words keep using that idea . |
| 21 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me . ’ |
| 22 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I wanted people , a friend , somebody to talk to … somebody who could help me escape from my island . |
| 25 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 26 | He would baffle and intrigue her , just as he had done Cassie on their first meeting ; and Cassie could think of no way in which she could explain him away . |
| 27 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 28 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 29 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 30 | We could also see Amy playing , and we could count the money Mr Smith saved for both parents to spend on cleaning materials which we could watch them using ! |