Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] but [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 2 | But Fred was saying , er because , erm the dreadful thing was I could n't remember his name to start with I think I could try if I knew but I could n't remember what his christian name |
| 3 | I think it 's I think but I could be wrong |
| 4 | Oh you you you paid but you could always get a place there I could remember a lot of parking time when I was n't driving . |
| 5 | So I said well do n't bloody worry she said but I could n't do that . |
| 6 | It widened but nothing could be seen in the gap , save for the path ahead , winding on down to the valley . |
| 7 | Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it . |
| 8 | Fernando Serra could make all the threats he liked but he could n't stop her carrying on her business . |
| 9 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 10 | Other carers are deterred by the Down 's syndrome person 's physical inability to make the mark , rather than by the lack of understanding : ‘ He knows what he likes but he could n't do the cross . |