Example sentences of "[pron] who could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did six tracks with Chris , but we did n't gel with him at all , we needed someone who could offer more inspiration . |
| 2 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 3 | But even to consider getting involved with someone who could talk in such a way … well , that would be to enter dangerous waters indeed . |
| 4 | Wherever the Labour party detects that there might be someone who could pay more under the rates , it wants every last penny out of that person . |
| 5 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 6 | It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people . |
| 7 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd think they 'd have the wit to send someone who could speak English . |
| 9 | In the darkness I felt in the hands of God , someone who could do anything He liked with me , even though that someone was more likely to be Mr Slieman , the manager , who with his pencil moustache looked more like a used car salesman and was constantly trying to show Louise , the cashier and kiosk girl , his collection of prophylactics . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course there is someone who could confirm the truth of that file , ’ she said . |
| 11 | We were always looking for someone who could give us help . |
| 12 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 13 | Someone who could draw your attention without being seen . |
| 14 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 15 | May I , once again , ask anyone who knows of someone who could benefit from a grant to please let us know . |
| 16 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 17 | After the performance , they felt they might have found someone who could fit the part . |
| 18 | All she had to do was push that door and she might find a friend , someone who could understand . |
| 19 | Then he 'd take it to someone who could cut er a key er so he could open the up the granary the late in in the middle of the night , when everybody were asleep , and steal oats for the horses . |
| 20 | Incidentally , mooning is n't one of my habits but for another canoeist to refer to the ‘ dork2 who owns a red Escort van is a rather nebulous description of someone who could fall into that category simply because he owns a red van and whose hobby happens to be canoeing — it makes one feel guilty without trial . |
| 21 | But what Jan was also looking for was someone who could spark off the right romantic chemistry with Jason Donovan . |
| 22 | Someone who could get at the soup , too . |
| 23 | She did n't look like someone who could poison what she touched , whatever she might think . |
| 24 | Stapleton , who is almost back to full fitness after a close-season knee operation , brought Pearson in because he wanted someone who could take charge in training — and have the respect of the players . |
| 25 | Elizabeth took no part in this discussion and Lydia wondered whether it was her imagination or whether Elizabeth had the air of someone who could say a great deal if she chose . |
| 26 | It had to be someone who could follow instructions to make an effective bow and sharp arrows , who had time to lie in wait , who wanted me gone , who had a universe to lose . |
| 27 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 28 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 29 | We needed magic , to resolve significance from what surrounded us , which scarcely permitted contemplation : we needed someone godlike — someone who could turn this world around . |
| 30 | Instead , he gambled on finding someone who could play the last card in the British deck — independence — and then , with nothing further to offer , keep sufficient control of the situation to extricate Britain from India with honour and possibly with glory . |