Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another story I could tell you it 'd er er make your hair curl . |
| 2 | I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel . |
| 3 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
| 4 | You 've got your questions and of course I could answer them Nicodemus I could tell the why 's and the wherefore 's of this , and of that , I could give you all the details and all the the the things that you want to know but , they 're not really important the real issue for you , Nicodemus , is that you have got to be born again ! |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I could believe it . |
| 6 | If I wanted to quadruple my income I could do it , very easily . |
| 7 | I ca n't see her in the dark , but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body . |
| 8 | Hang on , hang on Has anyone got some spare money I could pay 'em back ? |
| 9 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 10 | If I had the address on a yellow card I could show it to someone and they 'd tell me . |
| 11 | Oh no we 've got some really hard numbers french if I had a dictionary I could look it up but I have n't . |
| 12 | If there were a fault I could detect it . |
| 13 | Kukuli was Quechua for ‘ beautiful bird ’ and even in the dim light of the carriage I could see she had eyes like stars . |
| 14 | She called it infatuation — an illusion which could destroy us both . |
| 15 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 16 | He is not subject to any action from without , action which could compel him to change His attitudes or behaviour . |
| 17 | At a glance you could think she really was asleep . ’ |
| 18 | At a stroke she could make them vanish , but she 'd still see them . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll survive , ’ said Sendei , with an optimism she could tell he did n't feel . |
| 20 | There is someone in the department who could give you a good , competent briefing on almost anything . ’ |
| 21 | So yes , it 's one to forty ca n't be one to forty five because you have n't had tea well if you had tea you could say you were fortified |
| 22 | Do you set out the sum , er you must set out some calculation of how many you are likely to lose over the life of the aircraft , is there a percentage figure you could give us for that ? |
| 23 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 24 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 25 | Others who had been in contact with the maid also sickened and died , so the local residents determined to take what action they could to prevent it spreading . |
| 26 | As you 've said before , you know I 'm a privatisation man , er , and I think that comes down to number three , if we privatised the lot and pushed them further out , if they felt there was a need to do building maintenance they could do it . |
| 27 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 28 | With Wagner in mind he could say it now . |
| 29 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 30 | My father was so good with his gun that even in the dark he could bring 'em down . |