Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That was very good of you , ’ whispered Isabel , rather surprised that she could speak at all . |
| 4 | Er I think there 's a need to have a look at erm landscape character er across er Greater York on a consistent basis and er there are a number of ways that you could that you could look at this . |
| 5 | And , and , and all , he 'd got all countries ' television er going , you know , so you could look at any country at the moment , the moment it was producing . |
| 6 | Erm and er it could be that we could look at that . |
| 7 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 8 | She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started . |
| 9 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 10 | Erm we have available erm a a distribution obviously which is based on on sites , er and one could look at that er as a as a way forward erm |
| 11 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 12 | Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | Although the miserable cold was likely to keep her awake all night — if one could sleep at all in the open air , with a raging storm about one and the fear all the time that someone might find one camped out like a vagrant ! |
| 14 | The United States , or to be more precise , US capital , was clearly gaining if it could borrow at 1½ per cent and invest in setting up or buying businesses in Europe , which would earn a much greater rate of profit . |
| 15 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 16 | Now somewhere on there we should say what the total is because we could look at this and we could say , well she saves erm half of it but does she , how much does she get ? |
| 17 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 18 | we 've been slightly more amenable but invite to your club temerity to ask your Lordship rather me , but as I 'm on my feet , er ask your Lordship whether you could sit at all early on Friday as to help Mr er , I , I was little concerned to hear Mr say that he was going to wait for Mr he had responded because that would of course then extend more into Friday , it may be more sensible if Mr could have |
| 19 | Or whether she could run at all ? |
| 20 | Then , before she could reply at all , ‘ Which reminds me — how 's life as an artist 's model ? ’ |
| 21 | Would Sir Alexander Ramsay , of his goodness and in his leal duty to the King 's Grace and his Regent , come to Lochmaben Castle in Annandale at his earliest convenience , bringing with him such armed and horsed supporters as he could raise at short notice ? |