Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yep the only difference between the two , is the colours If I could talk to the animals walk with the animals , sing and dance and squawk with the animals ah la la la la ! |
| 2 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 3 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 4 | " I could speak to the nuns . " |
| 5 | On the first part , I could quote to the House increased statistics for money spent on training , but I do not wish to mislead the House into thinking that there is any qualification that can guarantee against the abuse that we have seen . |
| 6 | It it helps chairman er I could refer to the survey that we did erm of I think it was six erm industrial estates or employment er estates around the district , and they vary from modern business parks which are mainly office type developments through to some traditional and trading type estates . |
| 7 | I could refer to the work of our other G M B M E Ps . |
| 8 | I think I could go to the food industry or to the brewing industry . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , with you gone I could go to the DHSS , could n't I ? |
| 10 | If gravity was strong , I could go to the top floor of the building and speed up my time . |
| 11 | Now er that , if I was off sick , I could go to the Doctor and er I got , as a single man , I got er a pound a week from the National Health . |
| 12 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 13 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 14 | I wish I could go to the doctor with my husband . |
| 15 | Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle ? ’ she said . |
| 16 | Shelley went outside to the jeep , parked close by in the blazing sun , but turned as Miguel followed her and suggested , ‘ Maybe I could go to the village alone ? |
| 17 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 18 | It was only months later when I could listen to the radio and talk over the events with Terry and Tom , that it began to sink in . |
| 19 | I could listen to the music on mine you know . |
| 20 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 21 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |
| 22 | For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans , the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut , that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots . |
| 23 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 24 | I could get to the car-park in a few minutes if I wanted to and be near him , thinking of him — his problems over , lying on the brown eiderdown in his blue pyjamas . |
| 25 | I think that is the nearest I could get to the orange . |
| 26 | I left again , before I could get to the chow I had ordered . |
| 27 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 28 | As for the little animals , the gerbils , white mice and hamsters , they had to die their muddy little ploppy deaths so that I could get to the Skull of Old Saul . |
| 29 | No , built that and I know the guy so I could get to the plans . |
| 30 | I was relieved when the daylight came and I could surrender to the exhaustion in my brain . |