Example sentences of "[pers pn] could put a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lots of times , and I could put a date to it … near enough anyway . |
| 2 | I could put a message in a little bottle down the place . |
| 3 | I could put a couple of these in ! |
| 4 | I could put a handle on him . |
| 5 | ‘ She could put a spell on him , ’ Carrie said . |
| 6 | And she bought a , a cameo brooch with a little ring on top that she could put a chain in as well . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it was such a likely place for her romantic-minded young sister to frequent , and the sooner she found Suzie , the sooner she could put a stretch of the North Sea between herself and the clear-eyed Scandinavian whose presence she found so unnerving . |
| 8 | Celia said , before she could put a brake on her tongue : ‘ You really think Ivor 's dead ? ’ |
| 9 | You could put a bit of string round it and put it round mum 's neck so you know where she is . |
| 10 | If you deploy with a unit of Orcs you could put a unit of Black Orcs next to them , then Goblins , then Trolls , then more Orcs , and there will be no two animosity-suffering units next to each other . |
| 11 | Anyway , we got to the first tee and one of these immaculate guys got his driver out and hit the ball about 15 yards — and took a divot out you could put a pot plant into . |
| 12 | You could put a flower on it 's nose to cover it up . |
| 13 | He dropped seven bombs on the common there : of course , it was a boggy old place ; it left a hole there you could put a house in , nearly . |
| 14 | You could put a glass of water on the window edges and it would not spill over . |
| 15 | And you could put a line in |
| 16 | Canadian Pound told a breakfast press conference for journalists : ‘ The best of riders can not win without a good horse — you could put a dog on a horse and it would still win . ’ |
| 17 | You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head . |
| 18 | ‘ You could put a note through her letter-box if you want to contact her , ’ she suggested . |
| 19 | I 'd say you could put a lot of the abuse down to drink , though anyone with a black face was in trouble in Golcar that Saturday night . ’ |
| 20 | And tomorrow , you could put a drop of oil on that loft door , and the stable one an' all ; they screech like barn owls . ’ |
| 21 | and everywhere you 've got an a C A you could put an M G and everything would fit because it 's C A double positive M G double positive . |
| 22 | Perhaps he 'll come again tomorrow and then we could put a star for 3 , and the one who gets most stars , wins . ’ |
| 23 | I cited that Korea seemed to be in the same position as China in 1947–1948 ; that the Chinese officials also continuously stated that they could put a stop to inflation at any time . |
| 24 | Viewers were asked if they could put a name to the voice of the kidnapper , a fairly distinctive voice with a softish Yorkshire accent . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 26 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 27 | The wide chest , the neck like a tree-trunk , the surprisingly small head under its wild thatch of black hair looking like a tomato on a coffin … he could put a name to the creeping figure , and that name was Hrun the Barbarian . |
| 28 | He had not seen her face , which she kept covered with a scarf , but he thought he could put a name to her . |
| 29 | Just after teatime the owner came to the rails and called out to Maurice to send a dinghy so that he could put a party ashore . |
| 30 | But he could put a note on it . |