Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker 's ball skills could make him the ideal link between Tim Horan , who switched from centre to fly-half when Lynagh damaged his shoulder against Ireland , and Little . |
| 2 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 3 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 4 | Then he could show him the dismal landscape , and drawings he had done recently , some of which he had shown the Reverend Pietersen . |
| 5 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 6 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 8 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 9 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have thought you could ask it the other way round . |
| 11 | It landed in the sand , hopping on to the upslope and , when Lyle got there , he knew he could hit it the required 140 yards to the pin . |
| 12 | Lucy was no saint , but she could forgive him the rough handling . |