Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 2 | There was really very little I could do actively to refute the charge of selfishness . |
| 3 | I thought my eyes must be starting out of my head , too , but there was little I could do ; I was trying the best I could to think of something distracting to say to Eric . |
| 4 | ‘ There was little I could do to set her mind at rest except be myself , but I think they feel comfortable with me now . |
| 5 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 6 | If Dad was alive I could talk to him . |
| 7 | While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it . |
| 8 | And I thought , if I got that I could give it to Irene and could go wedding . |
| 9 | If I could do that I could do anything , as a chef once said to me when I told him he had sprinkled sugar on a steak and kidney pie . |
| 10 | The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female . |
| 11 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 12 | For that I could have three separate weeks in Alpine chalets . |
| 13 | I mean , for that I could have , do a lovely one for under , a reasonable price , and they 're going straight for the cord . |
| 14 | It was only after the resolution which this experience brought that I could say with a new reality , ‘ This God is my God . ’ |
| 15 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 16 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 17 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 18 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 19 | Once the legs were jointed I turned the leg and stretcher assembly upside down on to the bottom of the seat and from this I could mark the centres to be drilled and set the bevels to repeat the process . |
| 20 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 21 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 22 | Up until then I had seldom visited a doctor and prided myself that most things that went wrong I could put right myself . |
| 23 | I 'd like a trap or a gig , something light I could drive myself . |
| 24 | Luke might be quirky , but his eating habits are not as bizarre as some I could mention . |
| 25 | But he was n't like some I could mention — never that sort of noisy , knocking-it-down guy . |
| 26 | ‘ Safer in his arms than some I could mention , ’ Deirdre joked back . |
| 27 | No sneaking out at half time like some I could mention . " |
| 28 | And , unlike some I could mention , I 've stuck to my trade . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ A lot nicer than some I could name . ’ |
| 30 | Quite interesting I could give you a much gr a greater variety of ways up and down stairs than probably anybody . |