Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 2 | Oh there 's so much , I could do with Christmas at the . |
| 3 | erm our main objective if I could start with education , which is erm the erm predominant service provided by the County , we were concerned to protect the delegated budgets to schools , particularly the primary and the secondary schools . |
| 4 | I could cry with relief . |
| 5 | I could weep with frustration when I go around seeing the conditions some of our people work in , the pittance they have paid , young people hung around on street corners with no job and no real training . |
| 6 | I could help with maths |
| 7 | Elsie , spooning black tea into the fat pot her father preferred , said , ‘ She could do with company . |
| 8 | She could view with contempt those of her fellow tourists who , after the Aegean , could excite themselves over the meretricious charms of Venice . |
| 9 | But it 's rare and it depends on all kinds of things — like how mature you both are , how much experience of relationships you have and how well you could cope with time spent apart . |
| 10 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 11 | Because sometimes you could do with kick , a kick up the backside at home . |
| 12 | When time and energy are spread too thinly , even those things that you could do with ease when you were ‘ on good form ’ become more troublesome . |
| 13 | Holding back downhill causes sore toes and you could yell with agony and the thought of the two to three miles uphill from Apperley Bridge to Undercliffe still to be tackled . |
| 14 | ‘ Sounds as if we could do with Dad aboard right now , ’ Hawkins said . |
| 15 | Yeah we could do with decorating , but it 's not really worth it |
| 16 | We could do with building up the . |
| 17 | Bear in mind , that we could do with class in some areas . |
| 18 | We could replant with beech interspersed with conifers to act as nurses to the beech trees until they had got established . |
| 19 | When Bill and Kevin and I looked at how we could cope with appraisal in our division , the numbers did n't work out as badly at least as I thought they were going to originally . |
| 20 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 21 | If we could say with certainty that they are , then , it seems , we would already know the answer to the problem as to the possibility of a numerical diversity of ontological existents . |
| 22 | With Genesis 1–3 we could begin with Genesis 1 . |
| 23 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 24 | Though very sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of the birth family most adopters did not feel they could cope with contact . |
| 25 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 26 | They could lodge with Grandpa during the week and go home at week-ends . |
| 27 | But the shift in focus involved in the journey south did not necessarily reposition the directors who had once rediscovered northern grime into a world which they could explore with sympathy and understanding . |
| 28 | Their reasons for doing so were based on several fears : that family allowances would weaken the trade union movement by driving a wedge between the interests of single and married men and that they could interfere with wage negotiations to the detriment of wage rates . |
| 29 | Staff wanted material which they could use with class groups . |
| 30 | In the first five months , Sony sold as many as they could manufacture with unit sales topping 70,000 . |