Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adj] [noun] " 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 | Then of course at I mean you , at you could all sorts of things from there . |
| 4 | We can do it , and if you do , I do n't know , say five calls a day , let us say because I 'm not making any rules , erm , if you could six calls day , without any doubt it would increase your sales by twenty percent , it 'd be good that . |
| 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 | WE can lay pipe cheaper than we could 15 years ago , I agree , but are we still making the best use of new technology . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Consultants claim it could double services between Queen Street and Waverley stations with a train leaving every fifteen minutes . |
| 17 | Consultants claim it could double services between the trwo cities . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | He could baked potato . |
| 20 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |