Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggested that Brzezinski should " get stuffed " and then asked of he could translate this into Polish . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 6 | But surely what — what just happened to me could n't have done much for you , could it ? ’ |
| 7 | Oh I wish I had a washing machine they finished with I could have it . |
| 8 | In Howard E. Perry & Co . Ltd. v. B.R.B. it was held that the defendants ' refusal to allow the plaintiffs to enter their premises to collect goods which belonged to them could not be justified by their fear of intensified industrial action . |
| 9 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 10 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've warranted better results and when the first one went in you could see the confidence . |
| 12 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 13 | wearing a crash helmet and erm a buoyancy jacket , cos if you fell in you could hit your head on the rocks . |
| 14 | Her arms were finding their way about him , hands lifting , and the pleasure her mouth took from his could not be kept localised , a rapid tide of rich sensation spreading and sweeping through her whole being . |
| 15 | Not only had she a history of past Amativeness ( the fact that she was a " fallen woman " and so forth ) , but anyone who looked at her could see Amativeness written all over her . |
| 16 | No-one who looked at him could meet his gaze . |
| 17 | Erm and one I looked at I could n't believe it . |
| 18 | Erm I 'd seen one this morning but she is n't in the core lecture so she 's no good to you , but I said to her could you give me a lift at all ? |
| 19 | and I said to we could use it so |
| 20 | we hoped to we could n't never hoped to match them |
| 21 | But , she said , if Dew members wished to they could present it back to her and she would ensure it went through the proper channels for presentation to the borough council . |
| 22 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |
| 23 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 24 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 25 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 26 | the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham |
| 27 | Well , I 'm s sure if you wanted to I could give you the paint and you can do it for me . |
| 28 | So if I wanted to I could tell them where to go with that and all . |
| 29 | If you wanted to you could work a few more rows of stocking stitch and just put in a single row of holes again , but for our practise piece it is better to carry on and make more holes . |
| 30 | Okay if any of you wanted to you could always go out some tape recorder and people have a listen to it . |