Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] could [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could help these lunatics or I could fight them on behalf of Stok ; neither of those ideas appealed to me . |
| 2 | If there is not room for this you might utilize the space by making slots in the counter top to take your cooking knives , or you could suspend them from a magnetic bar just above out of reach of children . |
| 3 | Or you could read them out because then er , people did hear them . |
| 4 | Or we could take them periodically . |
| 5 | Now he must either spend countless valuable minutes retrieving the escaped marbles , or he could ignore them and leave Vic to reach his own conclusions . |
| 6 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 7 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 8 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 9 | Watford looked more dangerous though and no-one could dispute they deserved a matchwinning goal . |
| 10 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 11 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 12 | Those things happened , I know that , and I could swear they happened to me . |
| 13 | ‘ I do remember in Madrid , there was a crowd of teens , and I could see they knew her and were looking at her . |
| 14 | ‘ The bullets were hitting the road and I could see them coming towards me a lot faster than I was able to reverse . ’ |
| 15 | Lead me into a room and I could pick them out for you . |
| 16 | When I went into the shop people were tripping over themselves and banging into things and I could hear them saying : ‘ That 's Geoffrey Boycott — Geoffrey Boycott , sat in that car . ’ |
| 17 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 18 | Next time the Snows are on the programme : ‘ It would be nice if you and I could take them on and split them up , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 19 | And erm so we started the Brownies and I could train them and we used to have such fun together , you know |
| 20 | You had to buy your own stuff , I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot . |
| 21 | ‘ And I could teach them drawing , and Gay could come and take English and history , and we 'd have a school in no time ! |
| 22 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 23 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 24 | Right you could put that centre point there on that and you could draw them . |
| 25 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 26 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 27 | And you could see them all so nervousness anxiety that I was n't told about . |
| 28 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 29 | Oh well he could ring you up and you could take them back down but at least they would be dried . |
| 30 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |