Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 2 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |
| 3 | I could 'ear 'em both the ovver night when I walked past their winder . |
| 4 | If I could catch them all that young I 'd cure 'em before they got any ideas . ’ |
| 5 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 6 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 7 | Keep out the world and live as a recluse ; admit what visitors one wishes ; create tenancies or sub-tenancies ; grow mushrooms in the cellar ; sing bawdy songs in the bath ; paint the front door a luminous green ; sunbathe in the nude — no-one could list them all . |
| 8 | She said they did everything in teams , for the honour , and what was the good of that , when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back ? |
| 9 | She could read them all , Oxo , Rinso , O-Cedar , and Aero , even if she did n't always understand what they meant . |
| 10 | There , by small wrigglings and the exercise of will , she could encourage them both to insert their hands into different parts of her clothing , her body , sometimes simultaneously . |
| 11 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 12 | Her credentials , if she could call them that , had somehow got about . |
| 13 | If there are already several pictures in the room , you could give them all the same style of frame . |
| 14 | Erm well you could change them both into |
| 15 | If you concentrated you could make them all line up , in 3-D ; and then it would all just collapse and be jiggling spots again . |
| 16 | you could run them all end up with numbers |
| 17 | But with this man-woman stuff , you could run them any way you liked — and still get no further forward . |
| 18 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you think you could ask them all to stand over by the window , please ? |
| 20 | And the day erm V day you could hear them all cheering out there ! |
| 21 | And you could see them all so nervousness anxiety that I was n't told about . |
| 22 | This means that when we designed general SVQs we could give them all a similar number of module credits — whereas different occupational SVQs often have widely varying numbers of modules . |
| 23 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 24 | Well we could put them all in the thing ca n't we ? all in the canned box , it 's lovely and we could put at the top no Pepsi can |
| 25 | If the scientists had enough systems they could distinguish them all , the blood types I mean . |
| 26 | She saw at once what was happening to her and to Rose , and where it could lead them both . |
| 27 | If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all . |
| 28 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 29 | A skilled Nottingham engineer 's daughter of the 1920s remembers her father ‘ would never go to see his parents unless he could take them some money … |
| 30 | He could see them all far enough now . |