Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had chosen to go to University in Dundee so he could be near them . |
| 2 | She wished the time would go faster until her holiday in Spain so she could go away , leave George and just enjoy herself . |
| 3 | This man had the hand like , in Freddy if you could punch him you 'd go do you reckon he was there |
| 4 | so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together |
| 5 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 6 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 7 | ask him if come in Monday and he could say |
| 8 | He got lost in Istanbul and I could n't wait so I went on without him . ’ |
| 9 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 10 | There was no female suffrage in Paris that she could observe . |
| 11 | The same spirit produced the recent publication of a posthumous work by a 35-year-old French writer , Gilles Barbedette , who died a year ago in Paris before he could correct the proofs . |
| 12 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 13 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 14 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 15 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 16 | In 1860 Frith set up a photographic company in Reigate to record as many locations in Britain as he could . |
| 17 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 18 | He said he might sell it in Southampton if he could not get it on board . |
| 19 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 20 | Her father 's ship was on convoy duty in the North Sea , and her mother had gone to live in Glasgow so she could see him when he came into port . |
| 21 | It was in London that you could live anonymously , could create your own ambience , could deliberately fabricate the persona which you chose to present to the world . |
| 22 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 23 | A team of master map-makers had reason to call at the Land Registery centre in Birkenhead but they could n't find it . |