Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my mirror I could see a woman in the car as well . |
| 2 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 3 | For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest . |
| 4 | He chose a five percent discount rate table and in my opinion nobody could fault such a choice . |
| 5 | She said that if I stood in my doorway I could see her face , for the girl was not veiled . |
| 6 | In my imagination I could feel the monotony of the days in my country , the poverty and the nothingness . |
| 7 | In my youth I could read Jules Verne and H. G. Wells who took their hero explorers to the moon and to the depths of the ocean , but the imaginary worlds of Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle were still located here on earth in unmapped corners of Africa and South America . |
| 8 | And she got me again , cos I was n't bothered if she got me , you know what I mean , cos I , I was in my house I could get changed quickly and it was hot . |
| 9 | I could n't , I do n't think he could get the other he got that one because of , i in my health you could n't they could n't say how long |
| 10 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 11 | They think their hour is come to close on me , and to deal moderately now would be a thing in their littleness they could not but mistake . |
| 12 | But even in their religion they could not keep together … |
| 13 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 14 | The fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2 million people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 15 | erm the fear is that people will start to flood out of Iraq at the same time , in which case we could be talking about up to 2,000,000 people leaving Iraq through Jordan . |
| 16 | Modern Boy included real science , with pictures showing how powerful ants were by imagining them as big as horses , in which case they could move around carrying skyscrapers . |
| 17 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 18 | ‘ Playing cricket as well always caused a bit of a problem come April , unless you were n't in the team in which case they could n't give a stuff . |
| 19 | If the song is a modern piece , the front sheet may well be a photograph or picture , in which case one could pick a passage from the music itself and decorate that to highlight particular words or phrases . |
| 20 | Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne . |
| 22 | If you do n't , we reserve the right to treat your booking as cancelled , in which case you could be liable to pay us cancellation charges up to 100% of the Final Invoice total in accordance with paragraph 4 below . |
| 23 | A piece of thick , stiff cardboard about 40 cm × 15 cm for each tank — you could instead modify the design , using pieces of hardboard or preferably thin plywood , in which case you could make slightly larger aquaria ; a roll of transparent plastic sandwich bags ; one large , wide rubber band for each tank ; Bostik or other glue suitable for gluing the cardboard — if you are using plywood or hardboard , use a wood glue and small panel pins to fix the sections together ; a supply of jars or plastic containers with screw-on or snap-on lids . |
| 24 | In which case you could claim the proportion of the house on expenses . |
| 25 | You could be very stupid and go straight back to your flat , in which case you could be putting yourself in a lot of danger . |
| 26 | For example , a hearer might derive a range of implicatures about athletes and races , in which case you could say that the use of sprint conjures up an impression of athleticism not suggested by run . |
| 27 | One conclusion might be that it is possible to define different grades of appropriateness , in which case it could be argued that the word-of-mouth teaching of the lobon-gur solution was a more appropriate form of oral therapy technology than the distribution of an insufficient number of Oral Rehydration Salt packets via restricted outlets . |
| 28 | She could be totally paralysed and on a ventilator in Intensive Care , in which case it could be months before she recovers . |
| 29 | Perhaps it would be a pretty good discussion trying to decide in which establishment you could learn more . |
| 30 | Rory cried , feeling the weight of guilt settle on her shoulders like a suffocating cloak , even though she knew in her heart she could n't be held to blame for this tragedy . |