Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You always had a few explanations for why something did something and you could never pick out which — why it did it … you could explain it in several ways , and it just was n't positive enough for me . |
| 2 | leaving it and then going back to it to see if you could integrate it plus some graphs . |
| 3 | Maybe you could present it to those workmen . |
| 4 | No we could , we could do it for all jobs cos |
| 5 | we could do it for all jobs , and see , that 's what I saying , I mean , we 've got |
| 6 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 7 | Then I could keep it for many months . |
| 8 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 9 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 10 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 11 | Why is it that this machine c c could trim it on all sides ? |