Example sentences of "[pron] could [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
2 | I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me ! |
3 | A comet which could one day wipe out life on earth has been captured on film … by a postman . |
4 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
5 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |
6 | Well it 's erm and the see if you could another appointment erm for when he has got . |
7 | You could last night . |
8 | as I say if you could erm if you could some time soon drop a note off in my tray about , you know , kind of what exactly you 've got outstanding so I can go round and see the erm see the people concerned and , and say that you 've been |
9 | Alternatively we could all post lots of nice messages to him … by the time he finished trying to read them , Sheff Utd would have been RELEGATED … cos they are SO CRAP ( I like this : - ) |
10 | Er , rural traffic calming , speed cameras , provision for cyclists , pedestrian are all new money with a road safety bias in it , so I think we 've done the best that we could this year . |
11 | Only there could sacrificial worship take place ( 1 Kings 6 ) . |
12 | As far as Jenna was concerned they could all band together and explode . |
13 | Then they could all pool their energy and intelligence into solving all the problems we face . |
14 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
15 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
16 | He could baked potato . |
17 | As part of the card 's software , there is a DOS sequencer , to drive a MIDI keyboard or synth ( a MIDI adapter cable is available as an option ) , more Windows 3.1 sound mixers than anyone could possible want , a delectable sound sampler , and a utility to allow the more serious-minded user to add both synthesised music and sampled ( digitised ) sounds to presentation packages . |
18 | So what could in-service training offer teachers in locating and treating the causes of this dynamic ? |
19 | What could poor Mum do ? |
20 | And what could twenty-two-year-old trainee social worker Gillian Wyatt do for them ? |