Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like her husband , she had sharp and brilliantly intuitive instincts for people ; she knew at once whom Edouard could trust . |
| 2 | ‘ Above all else , he was a gentleman , someone with whom disagreements could be had on occasion , but who could always be respected for his firm views , honestly held and clearly put . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Cameron , ’ she said , and her voice was tender , ‘ you 're the excitement in my life ; you do things for me William could n't even imagine . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew John Schlesinger very well and he told me Dustin could play almost anything . ’ |
| 5 | There was nothing Penny could say or do to convince the angry farmer that she was n't an apple-thief . |
| 6 | Julia deliberately turned to him to explain the significance of Comfort 's private jokes and fill in the background whenever she mentioned the name of one of their friends whom David could not know . |
| 7 | Still , Laguna Chica itself was so beautiful in its tranquillity that my heart could not help but lift . |
| 8 | ‘ My heart could n't stand the strain . ’ |
| 9 | If I touch you here , then I certainly have everything my heart could desire . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I never thought my hair could look so good , ’ said a delighted , new-look Aimee . |
| 11 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
| 12 | ‘ Even my grannie could have scored from there ! ’ |
| 13 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 14 | That had at least prepared me , in ways that no other part of my experience could have done , for the chaos and complexity of industrial life . |
| 15 | So you see , though I would n't dream of advising you how to arrange a bouquet , there are plenty of other areas where my experience could be of help . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was just a caretaker , until my successor could be trained , ’ he said more gently . |
| 17 | It seemed odd that my skin could be so wet and my mouth so dry . |
| 18 | My Mum could n't remember his second name . ’ |
| 19 | Some played Monopoly ( which is a daft game to try to play in twenty minutes — even my Mum could n't go bankrupt in that time ) and others joined several games together and invented one new one which they called ‘ Scruvial Cluedopolybats ’ . |
| 20 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 21 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 22 | My mum could n't believe it when I shaved my legs , thought it absolutely outrageous . |
| 23 | In my jumper could n't I ? |
| 24 | Jack Scamp was ignoring me , but I had a feeling my luck could n't last . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 26 | Outside school walls , my mind could travel to Haggard 's |
| 27 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 28 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 29 | ‘ Luckily it 's a very old bath and only my shoulders could be seen , ’ she managed to joke . |
| 30 | Glaring at Matt , she snapped , ‘ How dare you say my ears could be used for horse blinkers ? |