Example sentences of "be [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 2 | No as far as as far as the ball and the roller is concerned , thos those are something we could give away from somebody else 's stand . |
| 3 | But there seemed to be nothing anybody could do . |
| 4 | Yet despite being the most powerful man in the world , in command of some of the most deadly and sophisticated weaponry ever designed , there seemed to be nothing he could do . |
| 5 | There seemed to be nothing she could do . |
| 6 | If he had an anaphylactic reaction out here , there would be nothing she could do to help him , doctor or not . |
| 7 | I 'm I I could n't , I know I had a document and I said to you that we were . |
| 8 | I 'm someone you could do wonderful world-changing things with . |
| 9 | It had to be someone who could follow instructions to make an effective bow and sharp arrows , who had time to lie in wait , who wanted me gone , who had a universe to lose . |
| 10 | Wherever the Labour party detects that there might be someone who could pay more under the rates , it wants every last penny out of that person . |
| 11 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 12 | Being able to be himself he could talk to teachers from the heart in a way which was amusing , touching and inspiring . |
| 13 | They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ? |
| 14 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 15 | Gordon Carlisle , chairman of the Law Society of Scotland 's planning committee , and a partner in Glasgow firm McClure Naismith Anderson & Gardiner , said : ‘ The result was going to be something nobody could rely on but which would , nevertheless , affect land values and cause blight . |
| 16 | There had to be something they could do . |
| 17 | But there had to be something they could do ! |
| 18 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |
| 19 | For one thing , it paid better than she could believe , and for another the work seemed to be something she could really get her teeth into . |
| 20 | There had to be something she could do . |
| 21 | It depended on the case , of course , and she hoped fervently that it would be something she could manage on her own . |
| 22 | ‘ I had no definite idea that a new magazine could be something I could live off . ’ |
| 23 | Then she heard the click of the door and she turned , acknowledged the sudden lurch in the pit of her stomach , a half-hope that somehow there would be something he could say that would make things all right . |
| 24 | it 's the paragraph above , this is still rather puzzling me erm the commission were concerned because there could be what one could describe as arbitrary and unfair , rejections of application for membership is , is that your reading of it ? |
| 25 | If Bonanza had set Connie Fraser up for the chill , there would n't be anything I could do to stop it . |
| 26 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 27 | Well there were them what could get 'em . |
| 28 | We 're sort of outside of that area so I do n't know what we do about our video equipment , but I think it would be beneficial if there were somebody we could call on to sort out problems for us , who actually understood all the stuff . |
| 29 | She was suddenly in alien territory again , being accused of being somebody she could never be , except on stage with a script in her hand . |
| 30 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |