Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 2 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 3 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 4 | the truth should be er help for me now , give me , give me a support or something and from her I could go about two weeks not hearing at all , no phone call , nothing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 7 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 8 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |