Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 2 | Yeah , I 'd run a creche erm help out you know , be part of a , part of a thing or I could set up some my own |
| 3 | But I could set up this magazine , I was good at that sort of thing . |
| 4 | I could walk out this minute , this very minute , if it was n't for Emma . |
| 5 | There was no way I could bring up young children there . |
| 6 | I started putting in more hours and sometimes found reason to sleep at the office , hoping I could sleep off this feeling of falling out of love . |
| 7 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 8 | Far off on the horizon I could make out tiny figures : galloping beasts , scurrying men ; and faint sounds came down to me of barking dogs , irritated bellowings and shrill cries of " Haow , haow ! " |
| 9 | I could make out two soldiers standing in a slit trench , they look like Airborne troops judging by the type of steel helmet they are wearing . |
| 10 | I could make out two figures in the boat , one male , one female . |
| 11 | I could make out four men . |
| 12 | I could knock up some lightweight special frames and do a positive test on their value . |
| 13 | ’ Archie , I wish I could hold out some hope . |
| 14 | ‘ Aye so do I , ’ said Vic , ‘ I think I could sort out that Vinny Jones . ’ |
| 15 | I could end up dead . |
| 16 | And I was told , if I did n't like it , I could pull out any time . |
| 17 | That was an answer I could give in medical detail , and so I did . |
| 18 | I could stay out all day . |
| 19 | My father stopped , looked at me for a bit and then said that in the circumstances I could go out that night — providing I milked the cows first . |
| 20 | ‘ I could empty out this whole ward and fill it before evening with four new patients — four I could help , Jack ; four that need help and need it now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I could summon up all the authority of this office [ Prime Minister ] I would put it into this single warning — the UK is in danger . |
| 22 | ‘ I could put up some sort of valiant struggle for survival . ’ |
| 23 | Er I might see if I could pick up that Sheffield United guy Jamie Hoyland . |
| 24 | I thought I would look at your file , to see if I could pick up any hints from how you had dealt with it . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps I could point up some of the concerns about c the second criterion . |
| 26 | I hoped and prayed that the lights would come on so I could fly down those steps . |
| 27 | I could dig up those documents … |
| 28 | And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments . |
| 29 | I could buy up this hotel tomorrow . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I feel I 've reached the stage of my career when I could take on another event seriously . |