Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And eventually they could be replaced by American products . |
| 2 | The argument , although thought-provoking , was not watertight ; panegyrics are not noted for their chronological reliability — and besides there could have been more than one battle against the Alamans . |
| 3 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 4 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 5 | And suddenly it could be a story , a funny story that was making Hermione laugh . |
| 6 | Then he smiled , and thanked her in that tearingly familiar voice , and suddenly she could hardly bear to think that she had lost him . |
| 7 | And suddenly she could n't escape quickly enough . |
| 8 | His eyes opened wide , and suddenly he could see Kirov in a new light . |
| 9 | She was breathing fast , her breasts rising and falling against the soft cotton , and suddenly he could n't breathe , could n't sit there another moment and watch her … |
| 10 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 11 | And so we could continue . |
| 12 | And so we could possibly you know |
| 13 | For instance , the verb regret seems to presuppose that its complement is true , and so we could try the following characterization : the sentence John does n't regret cheating can only be used appropriately in contexts where it is known ( or believed ) that John cheated . |
| 14 | We 're talking about a lot of money here , that has been spent , and has continued to be spent , and the sooner we get it sorted out the better , and I 'd like to see it on the agenda of the next budget review committee , which would prior to the policy committee , I believe next , and so we could perhaps augment er , Mr 's report with some findings of our own . |
| 15 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |
| 16 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 17 | And he had visitors and so they could hear me singing . |
| 18 | And so one could go on . |
| 19 | When James Cannavino said last week that IBM Corp was not going to sell personal computer clones , what he meant was that the things would not carry an IBM logo — and so he could say that IBM was not selling them . |
| 20 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 21 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 22 | And so I could help my mother out of her embarrassment . |
| 23 | And so I could not be certain whether the sight of his old home depressed him more than it inspired him . |
| 24 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |
| 25 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |
| 26 | and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and |
| 27 | and so I could er , you know , move around and that 's why , it was I was able to walk with callipers . |
| 28 | yeah and so I could see the blokes and tell them that were crap at rugby ! |
| 29 | It 's quite likely he will be returning to America to live there permanently , and so it could be my last chance . ’ |
| 30 | They had to have an organization , I thought , and perhaps they could help . |