Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 2 | In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire . |
| 3 | At some time over the next couple of days he could call into a hardware shop to find a match , and replace the missing part on his next visit . |
| 4 | if you watch the news , watch the nine o'clock news tonight and try and sift out how many things you could put into a negative pile and how many you could put into a positive pile and I think that you would find that the negative pile |
| 5 | In fact at various times there would be BBC rulings issued down concerning the number of breaks you could have in a recording , so you had to choose your breaks with great discretion to make best use of them . |
| 6 | No , not then , they all had cara well they used to have wee things they could stick on a a cart , a kind of bow shaped thing . |
| 7 | The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume . |
| 8 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
| 9 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 10 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 11 | I 've known horses I could read like a book . |
| 12 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
| 13 | With distributed database systems we could continue with a couple of things mentioned earlier on . |
| 14 | This was brought home to her when the only holiday jobs she could get as a teenager were helping on market stalls and working as a chambermaid in a hotel . |