Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me you could think that . |
| 2 | So while he 's looking for you somebody could run out and kick the tin , there you go and fetch him , and if he 'd caught anybody and when you kicked that tin the other , well you could all go and hide . |
| 3 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 4 | But , as long as the music had doh ray mes written on it I could play with one hand but |
| 5 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 6 | It seemed to me you could have no other name . |
| 7 | As he sat waiting for Karlinsky to appear , looking around him he could see other men 's sons , boys of Jacob 's age , sitting with their fathers . |
| 8 | I mean it would n't be the truth but you , if they did n't look into it you could say it could n't you ? |
| 9 | Mr Gillis continued writing and when Alec turned to me I could see the strain on his face . |
| 10 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 11 | Say , everybody was saying to me we could break in there . |
| 12 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 13 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 14 | Seems to me you could grab him and save the dough . ’ |
| 15 | But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it . |
| 16 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 17 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 18 | I was not in love with Terry , never had been ; I went after him , deliberately , because I was ripe for an affair and I thought with him I could have one and enjoy it and still feel like the nice clean girl-next-door afterwards . |
| 19 | Well , you know , if you had n't been quick and run into me he could have caught up with you . |
| 20 | Her father sat beside her and glancing at him she could see that he was quite puffed out with pride . |
| 21 | Come to think of it you could call anyone by a name which is not their own and make them sound stupid . |
| 22 | Well you said to me he could have it he said I 'll have tonight . |
| 23 | ‘ But if Fabia comes with me we could travel by car , take the ferry across to Belgium and belt through Germany and … ’ |