Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
2 | Or you could step into a VR of the Louvre Art Gallery and attend a class about the painting of the Mona Lisa . |
3 | Any software that uses a page description language called PostScript will talk to Linotype photosetters , TeX talks to just about anything ever made or you could go for a specialist product such as Itek 's PTW which links to their Digitek photosetter . |
4 | Alright , is that significantly different from zero or you could go to a pie squared tables , look at the degrees of freedom , which is one , right . |
5 | Either you should ask your spouse to enter into the covenant or you could enter into a Joint Deed of Covenant signed by both you and your spouse . |
6 | or he or she could start with a Viking place name or a reference to a Viking raid in their own area . |
7 | Or he could go for a referendum . |
8 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
9 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
10 | And I could ride like a red indian . |
11 | And you could walk fifty yards down the road and there 'd be somebody else building and you could walk on a say is that the job how much ? |
12 | Er and you could go to a boarding school but if you did n't you were moved round every three or four years at the most to a different school . |
13 | I suppose one of the things about Neighbourhood Watch , if , if it worked properly , is that you , there 's a group of you with a common interest , and you could deal with a situation like that a bit better than you could if you were on your own . |
14 | And we could do with a break in America . ’ |
15 | After all we are only human beings down here and we could do with a lot more praise and comfort then we actually get . |
16 | ‘ All it needs is two seats and we could go for a jaunt in it . |
17 | United 's goals have dried up though … and they could do with a man like Southend 's Stan Collymore who hit the winner 12 minutes from time … he 's worth over a million pounds … and left Oxford penniless on saturday … |
18 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
19 | And he could write after a visit to Kano , with a degree of self-deception which reminds one of Sir Frederick Weld , that , though a mere two years before ‘ Kano was armed to fight us … |
20 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
21 | Like a faster-acting computer programme , decisions and judgements can speed up , and it could lead to a higher IQ ! |
22 | There are always launderettes and it could lead to a career in pop music . ) |
23 | It would be nice if you could leave the fax modem in Auto-answer mode and it could distinguish between a fax machine or another modem that was calling it , and act appropriately . |
24 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
25 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
26 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
27 | But you could go to a campsite for far less ! ’ |
28 | But you could ask for a special audit . |
29 | The product is white but you could mix in a slight trace of pigment or water colour to obtain a better match with the pan itself . |
30 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |