Example sentences of "anyone who could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing a youth of about 17 about to cycle away , Harry whispered that he was RAF and did he know anyone who could help . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , no writer , however self-sufficient , writes without a thought of an audience , and Tolkien was happy to discover anyone who could appreciate what he was up to . |
| 3 | The exhibition features not only the cafes that belonged to the intelligentsia but also the clubs : and the Tabou , the Lorientais and the Rose Rouge belonged to anyone who could get in . |
| 4 | This was obvious to anyone who could think , ’ it says . |
| 5 | At the time I was involved in various things at Philips Records and I asked someone if they knew of anyone who could get David out of his contract , and was told that he knew a man called Tony DeFries who was actually not allowed to practise at the bar — he was a consultant , a trouble-shooter , divorce cases . |
| 6 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 7 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 8 | Their price of £4,000 to anyone who could find a typographical error in their works remains unclaimed to this day . |
| 9 | The period opened with the usual resistance from the inhabitants , who dug an open grave for William Fairchild , the surveyor of King 's Sedgemoor , and announced ‘ a reward of a hogshead of cider … to anyone who could catch him ’ . |
| 10 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 11 | If we had anyone who could put up the money then we 'd buy our own and resell it at the end . ’ |
| 12 | Some sort of private grudge would seem to have been responsible ; Do you know of anyone who could have wished him harm ? |
| 13 | Anyone who could play an instrument or sing in tune was roped in , and I found my name put down on a list to be a chorus girl . |
| 14 | Anyone who could n't make the open day should go along to the Monday evening practice sessions . |
| 15 | I do n't know of anyone who could be described as an enemy of Dominic . ’ |
| 16 | I have a fitting on Sunday for the ‘ New Faces ’ final — one gown with three jackets to ring the changes over the ninety minutes of live T.V. It 's imperative that I do the show as I ca n't think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill . |
| 17 | For anyone who could be bothered to look and listen , Moose 's potential for pulling off something as weirdly , almost classically beautiful as this has always been there . |
| 18 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 19 | Anyone who could do so had already left the city for the comparative cool of the country . |
| 20 | One would n't normally suspect the credentials of anyone who could afford to stay at such a place . |
| 21 | ‘ No one can help feeling sorry for anyone who could do something so drastic . ’ |
| 22 | In his mind anyone who could have a bath without being told to needed treatment . |
| 23 | But the qualifications were elastic ; anyone who could ‘ live without manuell labour , and thereto is able and will beare the port , charge , and countenance of a gentleman , he shall for monie haue a cote and armes bestowed vpon him by heralds and therevnto being made so good cheape be called master and reputed for a gentleman euer after ’ . |
| 24 | Anyone who could hold a pair of knitting needles was expected to knit socks , balaclava helmets and scarves for the fighting men . |
| 25 | The rise of numerous sociétés savants is one of the most interesting aspects of this period , with their accommodation of not just professional scientists but anyone who could be induced to participate and part with the fee charged for annual membership . |
| 26 | We asked anyone who could do so to write a short statement about what the chapter was about . |
| 27 | Anyone who could name their career and promise a steadily rising salary could be a prospective candidate for a mortgage . |
| 28 | One of the best known followed his offer of £500 to anyone who could reproduce the box used in his box trick . |
| 29 | On the other hand anyone who could establish a real ascendancy over a monarch might himself become almost a surrogate ruler : the extraordinary position achieved by Prince G. A. Potemkin in Russia through his personal hold on Catherine II for some years before his death in 1791 is an outstanding case in point . |
| 30 | Anyone who could get excited by an annuity scheme must belong to a different species from his own . |