Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun pl] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 2 | Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was . |
| 3 | The fog gave us a very short time to control our fear , and for moments we could not move . ’ |
| 4 | From friends of long ago , from the European Parliament , and from names I could not decipher . |
| 5 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 6 | He answered earnestly and in words I could understand . |
| 7 | Without the light plants could n't live and without plants we could n't live . |
| 8 | But Michael Foot was a formidable orator and on occasions he could coin a phrase which captured the mood perfectly . |
| 9 | Wanderlust affected him even in retirement , when he and his sister Phyllis deserted suburban Didsbury for rural Whaley Bridge — nearer to walking country , of course , and to places he could paint . |