Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone could offer me a million quid for Henry , but there would be no sale . |
| 2 | There 's a good chance that someone could go into prison in similar circumstances and the same things would happen again . |
| 3 | But Huxley condemned Vestiges as meaningless verbiage and was unwilling to support the basic idea of evolution unless someone could show him a natural mechanism to explain how the process could work . |
| 4 | I mean you could be laying in bed , which are downstairs , and someone could throw summat through a window . |
| 5 | Perhaps someone could suggest to Vinny Jones that he takes up , say , flower-arranging ? |
| 6 | I think of [ name ] and how someone could do that to a wee woman like that . |
| 7 | Praps someone could do a song for it … either terrace , or even the ‘ lovely ’ Cantona one ( complete with dozey birds trying to dance and miming the words ? ) ? |
| 8 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
| 9 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 10 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 11 | Maybe someone could tell us where we are … . if it stops . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes . |
| 13 | And then you just draw it out again so that someone could look at it and they could see the energy changes in front . |
| 14 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 15 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 16 | Propositions 53 — 71 are the application of this thought to expectation ( for example , 56 : ‘ If someone could see the expectation itself — he would have to see what is being expected ’ ; 60 : ‘ Reality is not a property still missing in what is expected and which accedes to it when one 's expectation comes about ’ ) ; 331–70 , to colours ( for example , 331 : ‘ One is tempted to justify rules of grammar by sentences like ‘ But there really are four primary colours . |
| 17 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 18 | Her father David , of nearby Lytham , said : ‘ You do not think someone could die from a disease in just 10 hours . ’ |
| 19 | He gave no thought that someone could die , |
| 20 | If someone could crawl under the |
| 21 | now someone could turn , take e exception to that |
| 22 | Does this mean that someone could say ‘ At last Maureen Lipman is growing in stature ? ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps someone could come up with some better idea . |
| 24 | Someone could come at any minute . |
| 25 | Or have you ever wishes there was some way that someone could contact you … |
| 26 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 27 | Someone could follow you home after overhearing your conversation . |
| 28 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 29 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 30 | Obviously , they deserved to be beaten out of sight , but since the weather had looked almost certain to save them if someone could have stayed there , the collapse became even more abject . |