Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman placed a large digital clock on the conference table where everyone could see it . |
| 2 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 3 | ‘ Any idea where I could lay my hands on an idiot 's guide to disputes ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted a sport where I could give my all , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 7 | I had gone , as the doctor had ordered , where I could feast my senses . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose you 've any idea where I could find her ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you let me have a phone number where I could get you this evening ? " |
| 10 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 11 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't do it ! ’ she had to tell her , and , when her sister 's look suddenly became hostile , ‘ I 'm sure if you wrote to Mr Gajdusek , or phoned him — or I could do it for you , ’ she volunteered hastily , not wanting to be bad friends with her , now of all times . |
| 13 | Or I could carry you . ’ |
| 14 | Well exactly , yes , she can give you a ring erm or I could give you a ring for that matter erm . |
| 15 | I could put it into Event , or I could give it to you for Time Out … |
| 16 | Or I could make it into a puppet . |
| 17 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 18 | As neither Marcella or I could sing we spoke along to the music in what we felt , somehow , was Good Old Cabaret Style … |
| 19 | ROS : Or I could lick yours , of course . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 21 | I could help these lunatics or I could fight them on behalf of Stok ; neither of those ideas appealed to me . |
| 22 | Or somebody could tell me . |
| 23 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 24 | In a minute she would say she wanted to talk about Oliver and they would go somewhere quiet , where she could explain everything slowly , from the beginning . |
| 25 | Robbie could n't tell what he was thinking , but her mind was only on the goal ahead , some private spot where their lovemaking could be renewed , where she could give herself up to him and all the promised delights his body offered hers . |
| 26 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 27 | She picked up both the paper and the keys , and this time held her arms out immediately in front of her — where she could keep her eye on both at the same time . |
| 28 | Spun me a good story about her husband , Malcolm , and how he 'd died , and she was going to stay with a friend in Birkleigh until she found a living-in job where she could keep you . |
| 29 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 30 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |