Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So everybody bar the PE teacher hated me playing football and everything they could do to stop me playing football they did . |
| 2 | Erm er and if you had done some researches into the job opportunities and you you could decide that then that that would be good . |
| 3 | but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 4 | But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 5 | In the space below write the name of someone in your class who struggles with the work and who you could try to encourage . |
| 6 | Here you can find exquisitely tailored coats with velvet collars , hand- embroidered infant nightdresses , button shoes and everything you could need for a newborn baby including charmingly traditional christening presents . |
| 7 | I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Adam loved words , was fascinated by them , their meanings and what you could do with them , with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology . |
| 10 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 11 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 12 | But he also warns her not to let these spiritual conversations degenerate into gossip — an obvious danger and one which could ruin the religious life . |
| 13 | Only the score and what we could work out on the piano and what we were able to hear in the opera-house from singers like Mayr . |
| 14 | It was a brave and beautiful place , with innumerable windows and twisting staircases and a lawn and a swing in a tree and everything you could desire in a spacious and desirable residence , only that it was all still and tiny enough to need a magnifying glass to see the intricacies of its carvings and appurtenances . |
| 15 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 16 | Reporting restrictions were not lifted and the magistrates made an order preventing publication of the boys ' names or anything which could identify them . |
| 17 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 18 | There was no man but one who could trouble her rest ever again , and whatever disorder or ordeal he cast into her path she knew she would go gladly , and gather like flowers . |
| 19 | He could say sentences which would have been preposterous if they were seen as rhetoric but which he could carry because they were delivered with uproarious humour — ‘ Liberalism prolonged one 's youth , Liberalism did not decay ’ . |
| 20 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 21 | Unless there 's a special fluid or something they could put it in there to wash through |
| 22 | she said if you started off with cereal porridge or something you could have perhaps two rounds of cheese on toast for your break |
| 23 | He considered whom he knew in the Essex CID and whom he could tap for information . |
| 24 | Such mercenaries were specialist fighters , owing no firm allegiance , men who fought for pay and what they could get out of war . |
| 25 | Two of the latter were fighting for possession of a rather inebriated seaman on the quayside by Venturous one afternoon , an unusual entertainment but one we could have well done without . |
| 26 | But for the most part they had been undisturbed in their magic island or resort that was closed to others but which they could leave when they pleased . |
| 27 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 28 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 29 | Klein argues that the remarkable political consensus that existed on these principles in 1948 was accompanied by an even more profound consensus about the benefits of medicine and what it could achieve . |
| 30 | And then it was mammoth time and nothing she could do about it . |