Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 2 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 3 | I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend . |
| 4 | ‘ If I could have the same result again , I would be delighted , ’ said Yorath after naming his squad for the November 18 game . |
| 5 | ‘ I could say the same thing to you about a photograph of Svend ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I could ask the same thing of you , ’ she countered crisply . |
| 7 | I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month . |
| 8 | If I could produce the same effect on other people as Louis Armstrong does with that song , then I 'd be really happy . |
| 9 | Exactly like , I could see the same patterns — faces , almost — in the damage . |
| 10 | She was n't sure that she could offer the same kind of commitment in return , or that she wanted so much responsibility . |
| 11 | If she could get the same amount for her flat , then that would cover the mortgage . |
| 12 | The coroner then asked Mrs James if she could recognise the same man in court . |
| 13 | The writer was requesting advice on how she could obtain the same quality of Super Sax once again ! |
| 14 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 15 | Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in , |
| 16 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 17 | I honestly think you could take the same script but reshoot it with women and it would work . |
| 18 | The general idea is that erm you could replace the many wires that feed power to lights , horns and things of that sort by a single wire that just provides power to everything , along which you would send signals which would be decoded by micro-electronic components within the lamp unit to decide whether that should draw power or not draw power , and so you can replace the harness , effectively , with a single thick wire . |
| 19 | You could use the same method to grow oranges from their pips . |
| 20 | You could use the same monitor for either , so it is quite conceivable that institutions would in the future include both among their video equipment . |
| 21 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 22 | We could make the same kind of comment about the lyrics : the predictable rhymes ; the clichéd phrases ( ‘ South of the Border ’ , ‘ stars above ’ , ‘ my thoughts stray ’ , ‘ she was a picture ’ , and so on ) . |
| 23 | We could make the same kind of case for clusters of compatible genes building the different parts of eyes , ears , noses , walking limbs , all the cooperating parts of an animal 's body . |
| 24 | We could create the same regress by starting from the traditional tripartite conception and adding , on internalist grounds , |
| 25 | We could implement the same architecture in a number of ways , and some ranges of computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) are designed to a common architecture but with a radically different physical implementation for each model . |
| 26 | Clearly we could apply the same process to each of the alternatives . |
| 27 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 28 | They said they could do the same cake but at a cost of £103 , ’ she said . |
| 29 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 30 | They could speak the same language , but there was almost nothing else in their past that they 'd shared . |