Example sentences of "[pron] could do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so er , I 've got two Beta awards , weekends to do , I could do one Peter 's weekend now |
| 2 | In fact , there was n't anything else at all I could do that night except go to bed . |
| 3 | If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I could do some potatoes I suppose boiled |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | I would n't mind doing that , if there was , if I could do secondary teaching . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
| 9 | You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty . |
| 10 | ‘ I would not mind a few more so I could do more work at the Exchange . |
| 11 | ‘ All the same , ’ said Giffen , ‘ I wish I could do more reading . |
| 12 | He believed , without conceit , that not everyone could do this job and , as he felt that he could , it was up to him to do it . |
| 13 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 14 | Had n't she pretended , deliberately , to be younger than she was so she could do these things under the guise of innocence ? |
| 15 | When offered a post in the Labour government of 1964 she refused , saying that she could do more fighting for the government in Liverpool . |
| 16 | Jimmy Wilde , our centre-half , made an excellent debut for us in preventing Simpson from scoring but manager Fred Maven and Secretary Edmund Goodman knew immediately that this was a man who could do great things for Palace . |
| 17 | He never knocked his origins in American racing , but also he knew damned well that technologically America was behind and that in America you could do spectacular things but in grand prix racing you needed savvy , experience , strategy ; you had to have the smarts . |
| 18 | Sixty you could do six times six two sixes . |
| 19 | Yeah you could do that mum could n't you . |
| 20 | But I think you could do that sort erm provided you did n't sort of panic no chance of doing this okay ? |
| 21 | You could do that sort of thing then . |
| 22 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |
| 23 | You could do two times sixty . |
| 24 | Folly felt suddenly and painfully aware of the fact that the only qualification she had to run a shop was an unfinished college course and a healthy belief that you could do most things if you tried . |
| 25 | If we if you 're not happy with fourth roots , you could do square roots . |
| 26 | I believe you could do this job . |
| 27 | That you could do those things with boys and then write about them … . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , we could do odd jobs ! |
| 29 | From our research we could do six shows . |
| 30 | Erm , er , the only way we could do that Chair , is erm , by use of , of contingency funds and er , one 's aware very much of debates earlier in the day about the , the many pressures that the County Council and the Department faces , but erm , I would ask members to , to give very careful consideration to er , assisting to finish this project . |