Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 2 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
| 3 | On their side the Turks taxed when they could areas which were formally outside their territory but which were accessible to the border-guards which they , like the Habsburgs , maintained all along this hazy frontier . |
| 4 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 5 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 6 | Before 1918 electors could have more than one vote , provided that they could quality in different towns or counties ; it was now proposed by Unionists that the qualifying area in boroughs should become the constituency rather than the borough itself . |
| 7 | None the less her experiences with those other professionals led her to believe that she could nut affect the result of their deliberations . |
| 8 | Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green . |
| 9 | But there , from any notes , she felt that she could piece together what had taken place . |
| 10 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 11 | So that means if you could line up a hundred million atoms you 'd just reach one centimetre ? |
| 12 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 13 | Nobody expects me to say that you could gig with either of these amps , do they ? |
| 14 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |