Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 2 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 3 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 4 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 5 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 6 | ’ At first I felt I could n't take care of my own life , ’ she says , remembering a rocky past with its broken marriage , drink and drugs . |
| 7 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 8 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 9 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 10 | ‘ You mean , I could now have cancer of the lung ? ! ’ |
| 11 | I was soaked to the skin , my hands so cold I could hardly keep hold of the tiller . |
| 12 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |
| 13 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 14 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 15 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 16 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 17 | Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity . |
| 18 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 19 | You could also keep traack of who was in whoose team … & all transfers could be done via you . |
| 20 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 21 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 22 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 23 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 24 | Indeed , on the slower systems , John Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 25 | Indeed , on the slower systems , Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 26 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 27 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 28 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 29 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |
| 30 | After climbing the hill at Vezelay we could almost feel part of the preaching of St Bernard and the 2nd Crusade . |