Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's a m I mean we could easily say it 's |
| 2 | I mean we could all spend all day discussing that particular issue but up until the decision is made and which road they 're gon na go down we do know it 's gon na be banding but on what on what basis is it gon na be ? |
| 3 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 4 | I mean I could definitely do with these sides done . |
| 5 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 6 | I mean you could even write some fairly simple test programs in fact . |
| 7 | It 's obviously a show , and I mean you could well imagine that in the old days you need horses were really used to do a full day 's work , they did n't have quite such er nice clean tack a as these ones . |
| 8 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 9 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 10 | I mean you could hardly pass two buses on it then . |
| 11 | I mean , to die is not absolutely correct there is it , because I mean you could actually have a pay-out on critical illness , which happens earlier . |
| 12 | I mean you could always go away on holiday , if you 'd like . |
| 13 | I realized I could never become well-educated just by attending old Mrs Wopsle 's evening school , so I asked Mr Wopsle 's cousin Biddy to teach me everything she knew . |
| 14 | ‘ Even while I was speaking I realised I could well turn the tables with that . |
| 15 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 16 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 17 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll come up this evenin' , ’ said Linda , ‘ and if 'er shoes want a polish , I fink I could find some spit for 'er , I expect I could easy find a penn'orth . ’ |
| 19 | But I found I could just sit down and play by ear . |
| 20 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 21 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 22 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 23 | I imagined he could just sit down , perhaps at the typewriter to which he had recourse even for poetry , and produce the requisite text . |
| 24 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 25 | I know I could still step into Rankins . |
| 26 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 27 | ‘ If DJs gave either side enough spins and all curry eaters bought it , I believe I could really hit the big time , ’ said Peter , who lives in Bargoed , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 28 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 29 | I suppose they could always act differently . |
| 30 | I suppose we could just ignore it . |