Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 2 | One girl was a hard , chain-smoking sales machine letting me know I could not set up a multi-national congress without multi-national advertising . |
| 3 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 4 | Well when they put the flats up , I mean they could n't keep pets , and they had n't got a garden , and there was a period of time when er we were rather concerned . |
| 5 | I mean we could n't move from one end of the hub to the other for that , and they are the people who are excellent at doing that sort of business are n't they ? |
| 6 | What 's a m I mean we could easily say it 's |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 'd really need to see them to I mean I could n't explain it to you really . |
| 10 | I mean I could n't care less , as long as it was something |
| 11 | I mean I could n't walk for any great distance with it but I 'm going to have taxis . |
| 12 | Yeah , at least you get a bit more of a how long you got a you got a , I mean I could n't cope with , I mean I 'm not pleased with it now I 've done it . |
| 13 | I mean I could n't have , what with being sick and everything , but still I would have liked to tell everyone that I was pregnant . |
| 14 | Well , I looked a bit of a sight , but I thought well , well , you know , what else can I do , I mean I could n't take clothing to get changed in to . |
| 15 | Well , well she was , she was standing outside , I mean I looked at her this morning and I 've loo so I 've sort of looked at her , and I was going to speak to her and then this fella walked up and I thought , I , I mean I could n't gauge whether , and I mean my , I , I was thinking what I was going to say anyway , I was going to say er you know sa is it Paula so you perhaps do n't remember me but I , I , and then I was going to say I 'm Adrian , Adrian |
| 16 | I mean I could definitely do with these sides done . |
| 17 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 18 | I mean you could even write some fairly simple test programs in fact . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We had I mean you could n't do that much but it was |
| 22 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 23 | and er it 's that warm , it 's got to be really cold , I mean you could n't wear it in here on a Sunday night |
| 24 | I mean you could n't alter it , I mean you could , but the time it 'll take you to get it right . |
| 25 | I mean you could n't put a stranger on a job that you , you yourself . |
| 26 | one ball hanging out like like I mean you could n't help looking at it all the time |
| 27 | I mean even wh when we saw it ourselves , I mean you could n't comprehend the scale . |
| 28 | I mean you could n't have a meeting with the whole Catholic Church for example to decide on doctrine . |
| 29 | I mean you ca n't , it 's not , I mean you could n't have it in like |
| 30 | 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 . |