Example sentences of "could [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could I speak to Mrs Baudelaire , please ? ’ |
| 2 | Could I speak to Giles Carnaby ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Could I speak to Mr Carnaby ? ’ |
| 4 | Almost immediately a woman 's rather rough voice answered , and I said : ‘ Could I speak to Dana , please ? ’ |
| 5 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 6 | ‘ Could I speak to Charlotte Ladram , please ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Could I go to New York with you , ma'am ? |
| 8 | Whe then again is yo could I go to Southampton and |
| 9 | If I never went back until the end of the voyage , could I stay with Miss Anna ? |
| 10 | But could I live with Dana ? |
| 11 | Could I ask on page seventeen about Blue Cross ? |
| 12 | With all this filtration could I overstock by 25% , to 25 inches of fish ? |
| 13 | Could you swear on oath ? |
| 14 | so could you differentiate minus K X the coefficient is not three this time it 's minus K . |
| 15 | What could you do with lump of copper . |
| 16 | So what what could you do to kind of |
| 17 | Well he says er how could you vote for Kinnock he says because the press attacks him and he does n't defend himself ! |
| 18 | HOW COULD you refer to Banana Splits catch-phrases ( ‘ Spacehoppers , Spangles and The Golden Shot ’ , June ) without mentioning the all-time classic from the Arabian Nights cartoon , ‘ Size of an elephant ! ’ ? |
| 19 | And then she said , could you go to bed with him ? |
| 20 | Could you deal with cases fifty five and fifty six your worship ? |
| 21 | Because if if you took the the ideas of Freud 's seriously , and a lot of people who work with groups , the therapeutic groups claim to , do you think you would come to the same conclusion as Heather , I mean c could you have for example a , a psychotherapeutic group could you do group psychotherapy ? |
| 22 | Could you come with men There are a lot of things I want to talk about , and it would be easier in my office , where I 've got maps and things . " |
| 23 | Er , could you look at card D please ? |
| 24 | Could you look at card G. |
| 25 | 20 How many 15 comics could you buy for $3.45 ? |
| 26 | Right Sarah , could you share with Katie , and you two share as well |
| 27 | I mean , could you live with Neil Kinnock Prime Minister ? |
| 28 | Could you live on £1,300 a year ? |
| 29 | How could you live without Bethlehem — without Gethsemane — without the Resurrection ? |
| 30 | Erm what else could you put in front of ack ? |