Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 2 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 3 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 4 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 5 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 6 | ‘ Or I could simply beat you until the blood runs . |
| 7 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 8 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
| 9 | The male domovoi traditionally lived by the front step and the female in the cellar , where she could best supervise the family 's food supply . |
| 10 | There was the frightening sensation of being sucked into an invisible vortex , some dark cavern of the senses where she could no longer stand back and resist , where she could only feel … |
| 11 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 12 | You could organise a large event at your local park or a sponsored ramble in the country ; or you could simply leave the car at home and get people to sponsor your walk to the station . |
| 13 | You either go along with me until this is over or you could soon find yourself out of a job , although I suppose you could always see if Lewis had an opening for you on his paper . ’ |
| 14 | Back in Hinterzarten there are festivals , spa concerts , guided walking tours , tennis classes , canoeing and mountain biking — or you could just sit in the company of delicious pastries at one of the peaceful cafés . |
| 15 | Or you could just stay here and rest . |
| 16 | So you 've put your marks every two squares , but you do n't need to write all the numbers in you could just write say erm two , four , six , eight or you could just write five , ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five . |
| 17 | Or you could just write about how you enjoyed the story or you did n't enjoy the story , or you think it 's a great story , or what actually happened in the story . |
| 18 | Or you could just multiply them out if you liked . |
| 19 | Then there 's Koblenz where a huge castle overlooks the meeting and mingling of the Rhine with the Moselle , or you could even pop over and take a look at this smaller and gentler river . |
| 20 | Or you could always eat them straight away ! |
| 21 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 22 | Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies . |
| 23 | Lack of labour was often tied up with one member of the family being restricted in what he or she could physically do around the farm . |
| 24 | I would like to trace that film , but I do n't know where it is and where we could now see it . |
| 25 | It is certainly a procedure where one could well argue that the potential for serious abuse is endemic and inherent rather than isolated and , with due care , preventable . |
| 26 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 27 | Most two-syllable verbs that seem to be exceptions to the above might be interpreted as being morphologically complex ( e.g. ‘ permit ’ = ‘ per ’ + ‘ mit ’ ) , or we could simply list all such verbs as exceptions . |
| 28 | Or we could just use whatever we get at the interview side . |
| 29 | Or we could always do the Aqua Suite . |
| 30 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |