Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He therefore decreed that before either could reproduce they must fight to the death , with the flesh from the loser being fed to deserving men . |
| 2 | ‘ Very much , ’ she replied , but she somehow still felt upset that he could think she would go behind his back and cross-examine his secretary . |
| 3 | Hurt that he could think she would do that pest of an interview through Lubor , she was certain then that she did n't even like Ven Gajdusek — much less was she attracted to him ! |
| 4 | They could discuss which would get cold most quickly , which would stay hottest longest and why . |
| 5 | If I could speak I would have said , ‘ Elizabeth , Elizabeth , go back into the shadows , get out of the light , hide your shining face in the shadows . ’ |
| 6 | If a wet stone could smell it would smell like this . |
| 7 | Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | what , what I could do I shall put these on and see what it at , starts and quickly put |
| 9 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 10 | S you could do you could do a hexagon this way actually draw a hexagon . |
| 11 | ‘ Could swear we ought to have caught up with it by now . |
| 12 | As a chemist , is there anything that you would really like to know , something you 'd really like to discover , something that if you knew you could feel you could do a whole lot more chemistry ? |
| 13 | For all Wexford knew or could remember there might have been a bank robbery in that city at that time . |
| 14 | Christina was already thinking about who she could ring who could contact Stephen . |
| 15 | I wonder if you could like anybody would like to elaborate on that ? |
| 16 | It was a big relief because everyone could see we should have won it . ’ |
| 17 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
| 18 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 19 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
| 20 | When he could see he would get nothing out of Dad , the visitor continued . |
| 21 | then you could see he 'd patch into all these different bloody things and |
| 22 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 23 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
| 24 | I wish I could believe he 'd come by it honestly , driving his lorry up and down the Great North Road . ’ |
| 25 | And they 'd be talking , now you could bet they could get somebody interested in that shop on , on politics or trade unionism , they 'd get one in that shop . |
| 26 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 27 | They could have they could have even faxed it . |
| 28 | It could have it could have some more shopping , it could have another primary school , it could have a rail link , or some other public transport link . |
| 29 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 30 | You could have you could have made it work . |