Example sentences of "could [pron] come [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Sir , could I come round to have a talk ? |
2 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
3 | ‘ Could I come in , please ? ’ , |
4 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
5 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |
6 | Yes , could I come back on that . |
7 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
8 | " Hazel , " said Fiver , " could you come up on the bank with me for a few moments ? |
9 | We 've got so many people could you come up here and do |
10 | No , I mean — could you come up here ? |
11 | Not , could you come out and have a look at the chap ! |
12 | Could you come down and see me in my office , please , Dorothy ? ’ |
13 | Therese , could you come down here for a moment ? |
14 | Could you come down ? |
15 | ‘ Could you come back at about ten o'clock tonight … ? ’ |
16 | Could you come back later when Sal is here ? ’ |
17 | ‘ Could you come back after lunch ? ’ |
18 | Could we come back into the group now ? |
19 | So if you could just spend five or six minutes doing that and could we come back at twenty five |
20 | Cos if anybody who could they come on if they caught cold and and |
21 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
22 | How could it come out , after all this time ? |