Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman placed a large digital clock on the conference table where everyone could see it . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose you 've any idea where I could find her ? ’ |
| 3 | Can you let me have a phone number where I could get you this evening ? " |
| 4 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … ) |
| 8 | There was probably a night service bus , but she had no idea where she could catch it , or where it stopped in Yonder . |
| 9 | I could meet you somewhere where you could show me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 15 | The conclusions are obvious enough : that there was a tendency among some Victorians to have fewer children where they could arrange it that way , and that improved medical care , hygiene , sanitation and living conditions generally were improving life-expectancy and helping to eradicate infant deaths . |
| 16 | Full marks on their specialist round on palms — lots of long unpronounceable latin names , and then on to the quick fire round where they could blow it all by answering incorrectly . |
| 17 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 18 | Almost immediately they began working out the details of their new counselling service — or , as they preferred to call it , their chat-line — and how and where they could fit it into their already busy schedule . |
| 19 | Instead of tripping over their shoes while doing quick changes , each chair had pockets where they could thrust them out of the way . |
| 20 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 21 | Instead of land being in demand , lords were having to accept tenants where they could find them , on conditions which the tenants were prepared to offer . |
| 22 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 23 | Right now I was too busy working on where he could take her for a honeymoon . |
| 24 | As ever , Oscar took beauty where he could find it , and before setting off , halted to admire the spectacle . |
| 25 | He was taking a group of his own men plus dogs and their handlers out to the helicopter base where he could brief them together with the pilots . |
| 26 | He 'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked . |
| 27 | She saw at once what was happening to her and to Rose , and where it could lead them both . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark . |
| 30 | The envelope was too big for the bag , so everyone could see it . |