Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the old system we could only react to what members of the public told us . |
| 2 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 3 | He had cultivated Marcel Mauss , Durkheim 's nephew , so that he could personally convey to her the importance of understanding the springs of human action . |
| 4 | ‘ That could just refer to me , ’ Lucien said . |
| 5 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 6 | Erm Erm erm I wonder if you could just explain to us as to Manchester public in general , benefits of subsidiarity |
| 7 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 8 | If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes . |
| 9 | It would be so much easier Elsie if there was not this huge amount of land separating us and if I could just talk to you for a little while face to face . |
| 10 | ‘ If I could just listen to your chest , get some idea of what 's going on in there ? ’ |
| 11 | If I could just get to my room . |
| 12 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 13 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 14 | Yet it 's hard to see how any court of law could possibly agree to them being removed from her . |
| 15 | Vincent had not tumed up and he wondered what he could possibly say to him when — or if — he did . |
| 16 | Perhaps , when she 'd grown stronger , she could slip away into the night and keep on 166 walking … after all , what was the worst that could possibly happen to her ? |
| 17 | If she did , he would know at once that there were certain ways in which he could still get to her . |
| 18 | If she ran away from Julius every time the conversation touched on the past or got in the least personal , then he was going to start to think he could still get to her . |
| 19 | And even if you think you are in a rock-solid job , it could still happen to you . |
| 20 | He could always talk to them on their level without ever sounding patronising , as most adults tend to do . ’ |
| 21 | But erm , and you could always refer to it in your dialogue with them if you had a claim to make , er that they were only paying the district rate . |
| 22 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 24 | Described as a Professional ZX Spectrum Keyboard this has to be the worst thing you could ever do to your Spectrum ! |
| 25 | I reckon the closest Fergie could ever get to her role model would be pulling pints in the Queen Vic down in Albert Square . |
| 26 | ‘ It is the most awful thing that could ever happen to me . |
| 27 | SACRISTON entertainer Brenda Collins is often billed as Little Miss Dynamite for her role as singer-comediennne , a description which could also apply to her everyday life . |
| 28 | That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other . |
| 29 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 30 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |