Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 2 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 3 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 4 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 5 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 6 | Amanda Tooth said that hard times made Antonia set her sights on someone who could help her make a name . |
| 7 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me . ’ |
| 8 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me ’ |
| 9 | Knowing you were n't , that maybe you 'd taken my advice and gone off to find somebody who could love you back , left me in turmoil . |
| 10 | I wanted people , a friend , somebody to talk to … somebody who could help me escape from my island . |
| 11 | Desperately Leith racked her brains , but there was nothing she could tell him , only the truth . |
| 12 | So strong is the spell on him , I know none who could undo it ; it draws on his own nature , and all his strength serves but to bind it tighter . |
| 13 | Of course , he played war that he 'd got rubbish for his dinner , but he 'd got everything I could give him . |
| 14 | I did everything I could to avoid them . |
| 15 | I read to him , and talked to him , and did everything I could to make him comfortable . |
| 16 | Darling , I did everything I could to make it pleasurable , not painful … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 18 | Well that 's something somebody could get him . |
| 19 | And foreseeing that necessity , you made sure that you knew something which could earn you money at need . |
| 20 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've done everything you could to find her . |
| 22 | When a message came from a friend in Prague that their mother had disappeared , Miss Harder did everything she could to console them and they became very close . |
| 23 | Something you could tell us ? |
| 24 | Let us see now if there 's something you could keep them in . |
| 25 | There was no one she could discuss it with , for Hoomey was too scared , and no one else knew . |
| 26 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 27 | When everything was set down clearly , Mitch was the only one who could calm her . |
| 28 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Yeltsin is its best known member and probably the only one who could give it party discipline and a distinctive ideology . |
| 30 | I know of no one who could spare her that , who could make a tasteful picture , but You . |