Example sentences of "but [pers pn] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 2 | I was surprised she even knew what sandpaper was ; but I could be such a fool in not knowing people . |
| 3 | But I could be maligning the lad . |
| 4 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 5 | But I could be wrong , too , that 's why I had to hand it over to you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like time to think , but I could be interested , ’ she told him . |
| 7 | ‘ But I could be accused of negligence ! |
| 8 | I 've got a very hazy , but I could be confusing it her with one of the other relatives |
| 9 | I think it 's I think but I could be wrong |
| 10 | As you say , speculative , but you could be right . |
| 11 | But you could be important witnesses . |
| 12 | Well that would be an error , because it 's actually Canberra , but you could be , you yo that 's , that 's a mistake er , that anybody could make . |
| 13 | But you could be three or four hundred miles away moving from Penzance to Aberdeen . |
| 14 | ‘ But she could be very childish . |
| 15 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 16 | She loved that dog , but she could be very hard with him , too . |
| 17 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 18 | and that 's put on and if , we say for argument sake that er she was married , we know she 's not , but she could be and her banns are in and her husband gets wind that she 's getting married again , you know , so he goes into the registrar office has a look , and she 's already married to me and this is what it 's for |
| 19 | ‘ But we could be dealing with something that could take several generations to come out . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't like to put a time on it , but we could be talking years . |
| 21 | ‘ Naturally , we are delighted with Johnny 's football success , particularly in the Irish Cup , but we could be doing with him at Lurgan , ’ said skipper Ross McCollum . |
| 22 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 23 | Most back problems originate in this area , but they could be easily avoided by regular exercise of the spinal erectors . |
| 24 | But they could be vinegar the next day , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Now , many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon . |
| 26 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 27 | Workers had to push hard to win these advances , but they could be won short of revolution . |
| 28 | The conditions typically restricted the defendant to peaceful picketing at his or her usual place of employment , but they could be wider than this , embracing curfews and residency requirements such as the stipulation on one occasion that a defendant reside in Wick ( Wallington , 1985 : 156 ) . |
| 29 | But they could be seriously jeopardised by the Zambian and Zimbabwean proposal because there is no adequate system for marking skins , and once a pelt has reached the fur markets of Frankfurt , London or New York there is no realistic way of knowing where it came from . |
| 30 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |