Example sentences of "say [pers pn] could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say I could make a veterinary nurse — that 's as maybe , but I 'm sure I 'd never be any good as a vet . ’ |
| 2 | But I have n't got I could n't at this stage say I could do a tap next year . |
| 3 | Labour supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 4 | The Labour Pary supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor-racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 5 | They say he could have a future when he 's finished his studies . " |
| 6 | No one says you could train a monkey to use it ; but ‘ you could train a very unintelligent operative ’ . |
| 7 | Guido had said she could have a day off , just to get acclimatised , but he 'd been firm that the lessons should start immediately after that . |
| 8 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 9 | He says it could fill a warehouse but he 's not going to . |
| 10 | Sooty was famous for his jokes and it was said he could make a cat laugh just by looking at it . |
| 11 | and it was said he could sniff a copper out a mile away . |
| 12 | Yeah when I get my printer mum said I could write a book . |
| 13 | Old Crumwallis said I could have a glass of sherry . |
| 14 | He said I could murder a roll up I said could you ? |
| 15 | Jack said you could hide a small army in the various wardrobes around the house . |
| 16 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 17 | She said she could feel a shard of genius enter her soul with my seed ! |
| 18 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 19 | Mrs O'Hara said she could see a gunman kneeling in the hallway firing into the room , and another gunman further along the hall . |
| 20 | So instead of dealing with sort of high trying to push everything So if you bring your voltage down from two forty volts to say you could get a a transformer , a battery eliminator , for a tape recorder . |
| 21 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 22 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 23 | Masha and Sergei said they could eat a sandwich . |
| 24 | ‘ It said they could break a human 's arm with a blow of their nose . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 26 | He said they could have a picnic if they brought some cake out into the garden , but they did n't seem to understand him . |
| 27 | WASHINGTON ( Reuter , AP ) — Opponents of NASA 's plan to launch 48 pounds of plutonium in the power pack of the Galileo space probe , said it could cause a nuclear accident worse than Chernobyl . |
| 28 | The patient said he could feel a surge of energy run through his body ‘ like a tingling sensation ’ . |
| 29 | As Bob Merryfield was having his dram Charlie broached the subject of rabbits and Parkinson said he could have a pair , as a number had been shot the previous day . |
| 30 | I thought that would be that , but they said he could have a vote , and he loves to go . |