Example sentences of "like [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cousin would say that I was no good , that a girl who had lost her father like me could never be any good . |
| 2 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 3 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 4 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |
| 5 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 6 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 7 | You look like you could make good use of a break . ’ |
| 8 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 9 | ‘ Sounds like you could boil a kettle on her head , ’ said Angalo . |
| 10 | Of course a child like you could n't damage anything . |
| 11 | And it looks like you could do with more . |
| 12 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 13 | 'You look like you could be part-Apache. ’ 'No , I 'm mostly Lithuanian . ’ |
| 14 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 15 | The two that were said like , nine thirty to something which was like one o'clock , and it did n't say lunch like you could n't get any . |
| 16 | John was being put in readiness for going ‘ over there ’ , so that middle-aged women like herself could sit at home working at petit-point and , hopefully , growing a little food . |
| 17 | Oh , he knew perfectly well that women like her could be bad news . |
| 18 | Alice was to work in computers he , Andrew , would arrange for her to have a quick course of training , which would be a sufficient basis on which an intelligent woman like her could build . |
| 19 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 20 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 21 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 22 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 23 | Still sounds like it could be a winner though , so we put Direct Designs and Psygnosis in touch … watch this space for further details , and hang on to your postage stamps ! |
| 24 | Now if this sounds like it could be the kind of course you need call Action Line and they 'll put you in touch with the people at Fast Forward and once you 've got the training and the qualifications the next thing is the application form is n't it and you 've got details as well today of someone who can help with that have n't you ? |
| 25 | I know this might sound obscure , but erm , I read somewhere when that erm , if you actually bring in protectionism , it sounds like it could actually increase trade . |
| 26 | Well , this voucher scheme sounds like it could be worth the 12 quid alone … any chance you could fax me the application form Gavin ? |
| 27 | Who would suspect that a pious nun like myself could be guilty of such an act ? ’ |
| 28 | Others verge on the bizarre — what , for instance , is the significance of : ‘ A love like ours could never die' ? |
| 29 | As we have often said , running trains or restoring locomotives is well beyond what a small society like ours could hope to achieve , but there are several ideas I would like to explore that might be realistic . |