Example sentences of "[pron] could [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get as many as I could possible |
| 2 | I wanted to light a match , but knew there were only four matches left now , and that I must wait until I reached the Bible-box where I could first make a handful of paper spills to keep the flame going . |
| 3 | It seemed I could learn nothing of happiness from Lili unless I could first discover her secret . |
| 4 | If I could first of all deal with the presentation of the women 's gold badge and the executive has decided that the award should go this year to Peggy from the Midland and East Coast region . |
| 5 | Well I could all of those letters could n't I ? |
| 6 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 7 | Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse . |
| 8 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 9 | The way you test that is , Ooh this looks a bit awkward , could I do Ooh yeah I could that . |
| 10 | ‘ But this time I want to land , not at Inverkeithing but , ’ he stared across the water , ‘ at some secret place far from public view where I could stable a horse without arousing suspicion or interest . ’ |
| 11 | In a way , I wish I was doi I wish I could equal acting on T V. |
| 12 | I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me ! |
| 13 | Officials of the UN Protection Force , Unprofor , said earlier that the airlift would be carried out by six helicopters which could each make six trips a day , carrying six stretchers and four other wounded people . |
| 14 | A comet which could one day wipe out life on earth has been captured on film … by a postman . |
| 15 | There was also criticism of the Scottish system 's period of ‘ adjustments ’ by both sides after claims and defences have been lodged , which was described by another as ‘ a lot of footering about altering original positions — which could all be done a lot faster ’ . |
| 16 | He has labelled it ‘ a cheap freakshow which could corrupt our young children who use the centre ’ . |
| 17 | He has labelled the display ‘ a cheap freakshow which could corrupt our children ’ . |
| 18 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 19 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 20 | Meredith could not hear what was being said but she could more or less guess at it . |
| 21 | She was small , and looked so frail it was a wonder she could bold the child , who began bawling as soon as the cold found it . |
| 22 | As we sat at the loch eating a cold lunch , deciding who could first pin the blame on the other for messing up the day , we heard voices from the cliffs surrounding the lochan . |
| 23 | The 1987 and 1992 figures are not strictly comparable because five years ago the Alliance had two separate leaders — David Owen and David Steel — who could each be named . |
| 24 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
| 25 | If I really wanted to make it all ‘ organic ’ I 'd take out a section of , like , six guitarists , who could all double up on parts . |
| 26 | Jaffa are sending a party of 50 who could all play a part in the bid to retain the title . |
| 27 | Gooch will return with Richard Blakey dropping out , but DeFreitas , Michael Atherton and John Emburey are players yet to appear in the Test series who could all come under consideration . |
| 28 | Who could that 've been ? |
| 29 | Who could this be ? |
| 30 | Who could this be ? she wondered rather crossly , not having realised that there was to be another woman there . |