Example sentences of "and [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Art school , university , we were going out of Yorkshire and nothing could stop us . |
| 4 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 5 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 6 | To hell with reason , she was scared today : what if she 'd lost her way , and nothing could put her on the right track . |
| 7 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 8 | Watford looked more dangerous though and no-one could dispute they deserved a matchwinning goal . |
| 9 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 10 | Then it follows from that that understanding Shakespeare and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive is also a good because if , for example , this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no-one could see him and no-one could understand him , and no-one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 13 | Well I put this on yesterday and I could smell it ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You love it here , and I could make it possible for you to remain here . |
| 16 | ‘ maybe you and I could make it a bit bigger though . ’ |
| 17 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 18 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 19 | I pushed my hand into the mouth and I could feel it all right . |
| 20 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 21 | " And I could telephone you . |
| 22 | She said you could have kept this shut and I could tell her myself . |
| 23 | He was a good local caddie but Mr Palmer made him nervous , and I could tell he 'd sooner be with Gary player and a quiet life . |
| 24 | He came at me again and I could tell he was gonig to make another stab at a heavy masculine embrace . |
| 25 | My Mum looked down at me and I could tell she was just about to cry . |
| 26 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 27 | Well they got these blacklegs and I could tell you a story about that as well . |
| 28 | Five more sentences and I could tell you which street you were born in . |
| 29 | No it 's not , I can sit there with a customer list and I could tell you who recommended who |
| 30 | Those things happened , I know that , and I could swear they happened to me . |