Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey . |
| 2 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 3 | These higher-order shaikhs had no power to intervene in the affairs of component lineages , although again , as senior and widely connected men , they had other roles which could entitle them to express an opinion . |
| 4 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 5 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 6 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 7 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 8 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 9 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 10 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 11 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 12 | By leaning her back against it and pedalling with her feet she could move it forwards inches at a time . |
| 13 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 14 | From the precise speed of his movements she could tell he was in a hurry . |
| 15 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
| 16 | At times she could imagine she was in an adjoining room at Jackdaw Cottage , eavesdropping on what they said . |
| 17 | Angelica loved the valley people — some of them , anyway but at times she could find them … well , basic more or less summarised the idea . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 19 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 20 | An occupational therapist from the social services department may be able to tell you about aids which could help you . |
| 21 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |
| 22 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 23 | The paper says that former IBM chief outside auditor Donald Chandler of Price Waterhouse & Co wrote in a 1988 memo that IBM was reporting revenues that it might never realise by booking sales when products were shipped — to its own warehouses for onward staging to customers , or to dealers who could return them . |
| 24 | And at dinnertime we used to look through this window and we could see all the lodging houses , and under the beds You could see them in bed . |
| 25 | This means that when we designed general SVQs we could give them all a similar number of module credits — whereas different occupational SVQs often have widely varying numbers of modules . |
| 26 | Intimacy is risky because as the other person discovers our weaknesses they could exploit them . |
| 27 | We , we , we , I suppose it 'd be like two levels , that in the majority of cases we could say we recommend that you do not issue a licence . |
| 28 | But like I mean , I do n't mind the blood or whatever , and if they were doing little things I could handle it but like , like on that op op , operation that woman was having the other day and they cut her open and they just pulled . |
| 29 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 30 | Things I could teach you . ’ |