Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman placed a large digital clock on the conference table where everyone could see it . |
| 2 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 3 | ‘ Any idea where I could lay my hands on an idiot 's guide to disputes ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted a sport where I could give my all , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 7 | I had gone , as the doctor had ordered , where I could feast my senses . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose you 've any idea where I could find her ? ’ |
| 9 | Can you let me have a phone number where I could get you this evening ? " |
| 10 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 11 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 12 | In a minute she would say she wanted to talk about Oliver and they would go somewhere quiet , where she could explain everything slowly , from the beginning . |
| 13 | Robbie could n't tell what he was thinking , but her mind was only on the goal ahead , some private spot where their lovemaking could be renewed , where she could give herself up to him and all the promised delights his body offered hers . |
| 14 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 15 | She picked up both the paper and the keys , and this time held her arms out immediately in front of her — where she could keep her eye on both at the same time . |
| 16 | Spun me a good story about her husband , Malcolm , and how he 'd died , and she was going to stay with a friend in Birkleigh until she found a living-in job where she could keep you . |
| 17 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 18 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 19 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 20 | In the steady , stupefying roar of the Hercules , she drifted into an area that was not sleep , yet not awake , a sort of limbo where she could direct her thoughts — as in a dream . |
| 21 | There was probably a night service bus , but she had no idea where she could catch it , or where it stopped in Yonder . |
| 22 | I could meet you somewhere where you could show me . |
| 23 | 75 V Street was a black door with a small glass panel at head height where you could see your own face reflected . |
| 24 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 25 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |
| 26 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 27 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 28 | It was considered that our pool of crewing officers had now grown to such an extent that we needed a forum where we could air our views and keep in touch both socially and with official trends , bearing in mind that our officers were now drawn from every part of the UK and from many different aspects of Customs and Excise . |
| 29 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 30 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |