Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In private practice you could provide services for large , corporate clients , or for private individuals and small businesses . |
| 2 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 3 | The same point can be made about each of the examples in [ 13 – 16 ] : in each case in other words introduces a summary rather than a paraphrase , and , not surprisingly , in each case it could be replaced by in short . |
| 4 | Just like a dance and they sung and they had just in each station you could hear them in Papa Stronsay we could hear them singing and dancing . |
| 5 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 6 | In that instant she could happily have hit him . |
| 7 | Charles 's appointments were of better men , but he used Laud , Williams , Juxon and others as his highest secular officials ; in that capacity it could hardly be expected that they would not be the subject of the same Parliamentary criticism as were laymen . |
| 8 | In that instance you could issue a B one so that he would have some money coming in . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah , I 've got a pair of in that colour you could have . |
| 10 | Yes , because in that case you could of , we could of drawn in people , describers from Perth |
| 11 | When he slipped in that muck he could have cracked his head against the side of the lift shaft ! |
| 12 | ‘ In that period she could have changed . |
| 13 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 14 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 15 | In this case it could help to identify family links . |
| 16 | In this case you could organise recording sessions on one day , with playback sessions the next , both done as rotating group tasks . |
| 17 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 18 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 19 | In this instance it could be the desire to divide . |
| 20 | If we could only stay here longer in this village we could take the cure . |
| 21 | ‘ In this sense it could be like the Sainsbury campaign , which is basically about celebrities teaching people how to cook . ’ |
| 22 | In this sense it could act as a model for ‘ non-aligned naval support ’ for the USSR . |
| 23 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In this way they could continue their musical careers after their voices had changed . |
| 25 | In this way they could convey to one another mental pictures of such objects . |
| 26 | In this way we could get some idea of the day-by-day variability in the subjects ' habits . |
| 27 | But by crossing direct in this way she could more than halve the time to the keeper 's cottage , and this might mean that the keeper could get to the West Wood in time to capture the deer-stealers before they drove away . |
| 28 | In this way he could form three detachments , controlled through a slightly expanded headquarters staff . |
| 29 | There must be , he thought , some key , some crack in this mystery he could use to achieve an answer . |
| 30 | In this place he could find Roy Rogers , Gene Autry , the Lone Ranger and Tonto . |