Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph Pike asked Harvey if he could smoke . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Bailey answered then held up his hand to silence Sabrina before she could speak again . |
| 3 | As the trucks made to leave the following day for the final part of the journey to Arcady , Cabochon asked Ari if he could speak with her , and then told her about what he feared waited in Arcady for him . |
| 4 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 5 | Violette asked Katherine if she could use her room to freshen up a little . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'm not sure what time he 'll get here and I do n't think Alf and I could manage this lot on our own . ’ |
| 7 | I think he was rather taken aback because my understanding is that he told David that he could get him out of the contract . |
| 8 | In early 1947 the British , financially drained , and facing complicated imperial problems in India and Palestine , told Washington that they could no longer provide their traditional assistance to the Greek and Turkish governments . |
| 9 | Sheriff Higgings told Arthur that he could do nothing other than give him a custodial sentence . |
| 10 | The government now denied that it was granted the terms it received under the Large Combustion Plant Directive on the basis that it would be fitting FGD so it could continue to burn high-sulphur coal . |
| 11 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 12 | ‘ Thirdly , Hopkins told Buckingham that he could lay hands on these precious relics . |
| 13 | And I asked Robert if I could have a er have a look at one of these |
| 14 | Sabrina leaped from her chair and shoulder-charged Al-Makesh before he could fire again . |
| 15 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office . |
| 16 | Eliot had already told Browne that he could not promise to deliver the play until June at the earliest . |
| 17 | I asked Nicola and she could n't remember so |
| 18 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |
| 19 | And he went to Plessey and asked Plessey if he could implement these little functions on micro circuits . |
| 20 | It 's a good story to get him to do Shakespeare cos we could write it in , you know , Shakespeare in Rodney plonker language , you know . |
| 21 | One day when Ken Bowden , formerly editor of Golf World , was playing with him , he asked Locke whether he could fade the ball . |
| 22 | I asked Derek if he could see a life-raft . |
| 23 | Kolchinsky leaped from his chair and grabbed Philpott before he could fall to the floor . |
| 24 | Scotland have offered some assistance in the Canadians ' injury crisis , physiotherapist Colin Elliot will be available to them , but it seems the Canadians stopped short of asking Scotland whether they could borrow their spare player — Stark — for the Fiji tournament , for which Canadian captain Julian Loveday has joined David Lougheed as an invalid . |
| 25 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 26 | They were asking Kurz if he could lower a rope so that they could attach some supplies to it . |
| 27 | I 've thought of asking Bryan if we could change to that , but he seems to be happy with the sound . |
| 28 | This pleased Mum , until I made the mistake of asking Mary if I could sleep in it . |
| 29 | I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and |
| 30 | In fact managing director Almerino Furlan warned Microsoft that it could go the same way as IBM Corp because , like Big Blue , it is trying to spread itself too thin . |