Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think I could make twenty quid go further than that . |
| 2 | Erm , got back here about quarter past nine , which was great , cos it meant I could watch One Foot in the Grave . |
| 3 | so er , I 've got two Beta awards , weekends to do , I could do one Peter 's weekend now |
| 4 | If I could cite one example of that , the accountancy profession recruits seventy per cent of its intake from non-accountancy graduates , and in fact , a student taking accountancy , and getting a not particularly good degree , even a lower second class honours degree , can sometimes be regarded by employers as having demonstrated not particularly good aptitude for accountancy , and be discounted in favour of a candidate from another major subject , who 's got a better class of degree . |
| 5 | Before I could pull 30 kilometres , now only half that . ’ |
| 6 | I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( ) |
| 7 | When I was a lad I could have seventy for them , I sat on there and I licked it up , er , a good afternoon , I was just having a break by sands , I said when I was a lad I could have seventy ice creams |
| 8 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 9 | I asked Leo if I could have five minutes ' peace . |
| 10 | If I allow other hon. Members to contribute , perhaps I could have five minutes or so , along with Opposition spokesmen , to make my wind-up speech and give a total justification of what the Government are doing . |
| 11 | I thought I could discern two elements in his ‘ game ’ — one didactic , the other aesthetic . |
| 12 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 13 | Then I got a bike , and I was alright then , I could put two milk churns on . |
| 14 | Before I finish I I just wonder whether I could put one point to the county and that 's whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan , they would allow the borough council to include the type of policy we 're seeking in our district wide local plan bearing in mind that some of the considerations in involved are of a strategic nature . |
| 15 | " You see I could win one week , be at peak form and not be able to compete the next . |
| 16 | I could hear two nurses talking in the corridor outside . |
| 17 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |
| 18 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 19 | He asked me if I could wait five minutes . |
| 20 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 21 | At this point I also realised ( and told Dang ) that there was no way I could teach 15 people at one time , with one machine without boring the other 14 of them . |
| 22 | I could run five minutes faster than last year and still end up fifth , or lower . ’ |
| 23 | A further six months and I could run thirty miles with little stiffness afterwards . |
| 24 | Like , I should n't have bought that book so I spent nearly , I could spend ten quid a week easily . |
| 25 | I could remember one case I had , er he 'd be about eight . |
| 26 | So I asked whether , at the end of that job , I could work four days a week , and I was favourably surprised at the reaction I received . |
| 27 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 28 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 29 | When I drew near the village I could see two girls sitting on the parapet of the little bridge . |
| 30 | When I got used to the light I could see two men sitting grinning at me . |