Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say we could do a lot worse than you . |
| 2 | Er and I should think we could supply rollers on the same basis could n't we ? |
| 3 | ‘ I should think we could put that right for you . |
| 4 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 5 | oh oh dear I should think you could send every female relative possible a mother 's day card |
| 6 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 7 | I should think you could find her there . ’ |
| 8 | I should think you could use some money just now . |
| 9 | I should think you could have a tissue . |
| 10 | I should imagine it could get quite frantic anyway . |
| 11 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll bet you could find some clues the coppers have missed . ’ |
| 13 | Cos I , I could tell she could place me from somewhere but she could n't remember where , well th I do n't think , she gave the impression that she knew who I was . |
| 14 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
| 15 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 17 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 18 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd say you could make your way up there , no trouble . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd say you could do with a touch more garlic in that , by the way — Pauline always used to go quite heavy on the garlic . |
| 21 | I 'd say you could put a lot of the abuse down to drink , though anyone with a black face was in trouble in Golcar that Saturday night . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd say he could wear a bra . |
| 23 | ‘ But I dare say we could get around that . |
| 24 | George said : ‘ Well I dare say I could find out from the Land Registry . ’ |
| 25 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 26 | I would hope it could work some miracle for myself also but I fear the burden I feel upon my back will not be helped by fine weather . |
| 27 | I would say you could defend the British position because what it seems to me to be based on is first of all the idea that the institution itself should make the decision , and that surely is a democratic start , that you do n't lay down a rule from Newcastle to John O'Groats , or wherever , and that the people in the institution have a certain chemistry together . |
| 28 | But she had character , and if she had a secret , I would say she could keep it . ’ |
| 29 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 30 | I can do I could do Carlisle |