Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , as a loner , I could n't get trade discounts from the best fabric manufacturers . ’ |
| 2 | I could n't find freezer space that 's why I |
| 3 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 4 | I could certainly smell coffee brewing . |
| 5 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 6 | The number of companies which could not meet payment orders for lack of sufficient funds rose by 60 per cent . |
| 7 | With Manchester United due at White Hart Lane on Saturday , Tottenham 's problems are made worse by a lengthening injury list which could soon reach crisis proportions . |
| 8 | She could even hear background music , syrupy and soothing , in her head . |
| 9 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 10 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 11 | From now on , she knew , she could n't set foot wrong . |
| 12 | But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee . |
| 13 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 14 | [ But ] the author excludes too many dialectical tensions from the book at the start : no church music will be considered ; no worrying about those Americans who could n't afford sheet music and a piano in the parlor is allowed either ; and no room for primarily instrumental music like marches , ragtime , jazz , or polka music up to 1950 . |
| 15 | It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems . |
| 16 | You could also create program groups to hold , for example , private and business files . |
| 17 | You could also add Rainbow Cichlids ( Herotilapia multispinosa ) to this set up . |
| 18 | You could even have video films , semi-darkness , no-smoking sections , paper bags . |
| 19 | If that does n't attract you or you 're not interested in the solitary life of home exercise , you could instead try Step Reebok , the latest buzzword in exercise-to-music , which we used to call aerobics , did n't we ? |
| 20 | You could either use chocolate eggs , or each Brownie could decorate a hard-boiled egg ( see pages 30–31 ) . |
| 21 | And this is how you could best describe swimbladder disease . |
| 22 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |
| 23 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 24 | Some time , not that long ago , when the sun always shone , when you could still hear church bells over the roar of traffic , and when the bobby rode a bike not a panda . |
| 25 | One could instead increase mutation rates artificially : if doubling mutation rates doubled senescence , or if a slight increase in the mutation rate produced catastrophic senescence ( Box 2 ) , then this would suggest a substantial effect of mutation in the original population . |
| 26 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 27 | But Palestinians rejected the offer and said they could not resume peace talks until all the deportees were returned . |
| 28 | Craig Brewin , chairman of the Football Supporters Association , said fans who could not get tickets for big matches would face ‘ frustration ’ if they could not afford satellite dishes . |
| 29 | This prohibition on other forms of lending meant that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards because they would then be obliged to honour cheques of depositors who overdrew their accounts thereby , in effect , giving them an overdraft . |
| 30 | As we saw earlier , societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards . |