Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to be inside the spell and out of here into the Time Chariot so fast you could n't say ‘ caterpillar 's boots ’ , always supposing you wanted to say such a ridiculous thing , which I do n't suppose you do . |
| 3 | You had to go a-shoeing the horse as best you could . |
| 4 | Pavement or no pavement , if he kicks the car forward now I could die the way that Albie did . |
| 5 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 6 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 7 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 8 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |
| 9 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 10 | You could put a hydro-electric dam up there which could help electricity , which could help your industry . |
| 11 | Erm if you were interested in probation then maybe you could get work in a probation hostel er you know as , as some sort of er assistant . |
| 12 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 13 | I used to think she did this because she loved my father so much she could n't wait for him to come home . |
| 14 | If we must have argument then perhaps it could be constructive . |
| 15 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |
| 16 | Tying her lead rope so tightly she could n't move her head , Luke had climbed up and approached her from above . |
| 17 | No something so no , sort of , start at lunchtime anyway so I could n't record any lunchtime . |
| 18 | Martin looked up into the dark sky where now he could see a faint pattern of grey , scudding clouds , then whispered , ‘ I do n't think it 'll last long with this wind , and there 's more snow in the air . |
| 19 | We used to bend the whiskers under the microscope with a dissecting needle and , having measured the thickness and radius of curvature very approximately we could estimate the breaking strain by simple beam theory . |
| 20 | Said only the once , but in memory so deep I could analyse each syllable . |
| 21 | will largely be seen after the New Year 's Day holiday so essentially you could still that the first regional survey to have been largely compiled of the results drawn er er from the beginning of this year and , and the , and the , and you know you see some reference in the press release to estimates based o on our survey of manufacturing employment er er for the regions , those figures are consistent with our national figures on , on the trend in manufacturing employment and our short term forecast which as a matter of fact was publ published at the end of last month so results . |
| 22 | ‘ Our children play out on the street and there 's a plan to build a school on land nearby surely we could n't have a busy road where children are going to school ? ’ |
| 23 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , because er they did n't produce it in time so therefore it could n't be printed |
| 25 | If he liked the house so much he could go and live in it himself and relive his happy memories . |
| 26 | Her low voice was shaky , her heart drumming so hard she could hardly hear herself . |
| 27 | ‘ If I could have got my nose in front again maybe I could have twisted it round but it was n't to be . ’ |