Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could cook you the same food for a quarter of the price . |
| 2 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 3 | ‘ I could ask you the same . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 5 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 6 | Lucy was no saint , but she could forgive him the rough handling . |
| 7 | Chesarynth wasted precious moments on amazement that she could appreciate something the powerful woman could not . |
| 8 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 9 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 10 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 11 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 12 | You could ask yourself the following questions : |
| 13 | ‘ I would have thought you could ask it the other way round . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 15 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 16 | We could give 'em a bit more , we could give , we could give 'em the four hundred pounds . |
| 17 | Or what we could do , if you say these this dose makes you a bit drowsy , we could give you the same stuff but in a lower dose . |
| 18 | When I wrote to Dr Barnardo 's , I said that they might not approve of money from such a source but the secretary who answered the letter said he was an old Selwyn man and the more we could send him the better . |
| 19 | Not our our owns but erm other people and they could see them the next day when the steamers went to the north isles for the er the cockerels or the hens sitting on the top of them . |
| 20 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 21 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 22 | The less official he could make it the better . |
| 23 | It landed in the sand , hopping on to the upslope and , when Lyle got there , he knew he could hit it the required 140 yards to the pin . |