Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 2 | And it looks like you could do with more . |
| 3 | for example , just walking with her could be troublesome . |
| 4 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 5 | If you want to you could also cut the bottom of the bookmark into a fringe . |
| 6 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |
| 7 | Yeah well I I said to Geoff I thought about it , but I did that come to me quite quickly but Geoff could n't think of it could you Geoff ? |
| 8 | He suggested that Brzezinski should " get stuffed " and then asked of he could translate this into Polish . |
| 9 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 10 | She could feel the heat of him , the hardness of muscle that lay hidden beneath the elegant cut of his dinner-jacket , and all at once there was a subtle shift in the atmosphere , as if the anger that burned between them could , in the flicker of a heartbeat , become something even more primitive … |
| 11 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 12 | But no country threatened with it could be sure that it would not . |
| 13 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 14 | Sizes range from They could be used for perimeter walls and the like if finished with a decorative rendering , if other materials prove too expensive . |
| 15 | He has the nonchalance of a guy it never occurs to he could get bust on the nose . |
| 16 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 17 | writing to me could damage your health . |
| 18 | Jasper and she stood looking into each other 's faces , alive and tingling and delighted , knowing that anyone looking at them could guess , simply from the waves of energy that danced from them . |
| 19 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 20 | It might not matter in the end — Forester fully expected to be traced and caught-but every difficulty and delay that he could strew behind him could make a final difference of hours or even minutes that might determine the distinction between success or failure . |
| 21 | And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon |
| 22 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 23 | You look like you could make good use of a break . ’ |
| 24 | 'You look like you could be part-Apache. ’ 'No , I 'm mostly Lithuanian . ’ |
| 25 | I think going with us could be the answer . ’ |
| 26 | But surely what — what just happened to me could n't have done much for you , could it ? ’ |
| 27 | Well if you 're not going to I could wear it to work |
| 28 | A multi-circuit pylon capable of carrying the existing line and the new cable and therefore replacing the present line rather than adding to it could also be considered for parts of the route . |
| 29 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 30 | Supposing that I could stand on the hills surrounding this Castle and send out the Samhailt , the ancient and precious gift bestowed on the Noble Houses of Ireland ? |