Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 2 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 3 | I could n't cope with a relationship that was so physical , I started to freeze up when you touched me . |
| 4 | Oh I could n't walk through a wood on a night time . |
| 5 | Peering through steamed-up glasses , I could n't differentiate between a sheep and a hedge , let alone identify the coloured rectangles of the course markers . |
| 6 | Putting his arm around his wife 's shoulder , he added : ‘ When I came down the drive to see you I could n't think of a good reason to give you for splitting up . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 8 | ( All right , I could n't think of a footballing Z. ) |
| 9 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 10 | I could n't think of a better place to end this leg of the tour than Belfast . ’ |
| 11 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 12 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 13 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 14 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 15 | I could n't work in a car factory |
| 16 | One of the books I re-read forever is ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ and another is ‘ Treasure Island ’ and these , to me , are the great examples of the plain style , I could n't write in a baroque style . |
| 17 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 18 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 19 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 20 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |
| 21 | ‘ Sure I could n't wish for a better husband for her . ’ |
| 22 | Obviously I could n't mime to a voice of seventeen years ago , no way on earth ! |
| 23 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 24 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 25 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 26 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 27 | I 'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism . |
| 28 | ‘ I could just do with a cuppa , ’ he said brightly . |
| 29 | I could just do with a drink . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If I could just come in a minute — ’ |