Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'm not sure what time he 'll get here and I do n't think Alf and I could manage this lot on our own . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I could manage this horse , ’ Alexander answered seriously , ‘ better than others do . ’ |
| 3 | I feel I could score more goals in Italy if I was given more freedom . |
| 4 | I could swear this calf has eaten some irritant or corrosive poison . " |
| 5 | ‘ Jealous people asking how I could earn such money on a government salary . ’ |
| 6 | Obviously , I could make better use of the space by replacing them with an 8 x 12ft monster , but that was too expensive £500 , or more … and I certainly did n't have that much going spare . |
| 7 | " I could make ginger snaps . |
| 8 | Well I think I could make twenty quid go further than that . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes I think I could make any man fancy me , ’ she told Chat magazine . |
| 10 | " I could make some biscuits , " she said . |
| 11 | I find it difficult to take orders , to be a follower rather than a leader , but I would n't have accepted if I was n't confident that I could make some contribution to the station . |
| 12 | I could make some excuse and come here — " |
| 13 | I could make smaller movies , but after running in the Olympics why should I go back to High School ? |
| 14 | When I know I could make valuable contributions to the business … ’ |
| 15 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 16 | Erm , got back here about quarter past nine , which was great , cos it meant I could watch One Foot in the Grave . |
| 17 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |
| 18 | This could be due in part to the fact that the only guitars I could draw any parallels with , in terms of appearance , were the infamous Jedsons of the late '60s and early '70s , guitars which many of us have nightmares about even now . |
| 19 | Erm do you think I could throw these roses out ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Said only the once , but in memory so deep I could analyse each syllable . |
| 22 | Afterwards , George asked me to come down and see if I could talk some sense into you . |
| 23 | so er , I 've got two Beta awards , weekends to do , I could do one Peter 's weekend now |
| 24 | In fact , there was n't anything else at all I could do that night except go to bed . |
| 25 | If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them . |
| 26 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |
| 27 | I could do some potatoes I suppose boiled |
| 28 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 29 | I would n't mind doing that , if there was , if I could do secondary teaching . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |