Example sentences of "[indef pn] could do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think of [ name ] and how someone could do that to a wee woman like that . |
| 2 | 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 ? ) ? |
| 3 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
| 4 | Nobody could do anything with Wally . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody could do that . |
| 6 | They said nobody could do it . |
| 7 | Nobody could do very much to a steak and kidney pie , she thought . |
| 8 | Story of four people this is a story of four people named everybody , somebody , anybody and nobody , there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody could do it , anybody could of done it , but nobody did , somebody got angry about that because it was everybody 's job , everybody thought anybody could do it , but nobody would . |
| 9 | He believed , without conceit , that not everyone could do this job and , as he felt that he could , it was up to him to do it . |
| 10 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 11 | As we 've seen , until the fences were raced over , no-one could do more than guess how stiff they would turn out to be . |
| 12 | None could do it better than you , and … ’ |
| 13 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
| 14 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 15 | Not a one could do it . |
| 16 | It was the least one could do in gratitude for so many years of loyal friendship , and the only basis on which that friendship could continue . |
| 17 | Although he did not succeed in imposing his strict standards of reliability on later Greek historians , he effectively discouraged the idea that one could do genuine historical research about the Past . |
| 18 | But no one could do more than guess … and hope . |
| 19 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
| 20 | Mr Wilcox 's son Adrian said : ‘ No one could do anything to save him — it was such a total shock . ’ |
| 21 | In favour of rigorism , there is the apparent reasonableness of saying that if one fails to do all one can to promote happiness ( and , in particular , to reduce suffering ) one has not done the best one could do , and that must be wrong . |
| 22 | There are excrescences one could do without on this side of the town . |
| 23 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 24 | All one could do is predict the probabilities of different outcomes . |
| 25 | The truth , she mused , as others had done before her , was an elusive element , and — short of shooting them in the kneecaps , or intermittently holding their heads under water there was little one could do to persuade people to reveal it . |
| 26 | One could do worse . |
| 27 | On every woman Cara had ever seen one could do something to enhance what Nature had given , or cover up what had been left out . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I did n't know one could do that in libraries . ’ |
| 29 | It was n't as if one could do anything to stop it . |
| 30 | Was it , wondered Robert , something one could do by post ? |