Example sentences of "in [noun] [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't tell her that they wanted to see whether it was still empty , just in case they could have it for Brownie Pack Meetings . |
| 2 | But when Bernard 's plan backfired I needed you alive in case you could lead me to Graham . |
| 3 | ‘ I had never met the man , but a friend had given him my number in case he could help me with my research , ’ says Lynsey . |
| 4 | Of course they would escape and of course they would outwit the Gruagach , thought Fenella , her mind tumbling with images , fighting to stay awake in case she could help Floy and Snodgrass . |
| 5 | I hung on , keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him , and the other on Stormy Petrel . |
| 6 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 7 | He was a man who could be honest with himself , and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London . |
| 8 | yes , well I do n't know , I suppose that nearly all er the houses in Harlow you could say are open planned now , you know had a , had er , a , kitchen dining area that we have , erm or erm lounge , diner , erm they have n't gone in , in this , the ordinary houses , they have n't gone in for building |
| 9 | In addition they could have gained a seat in Belfast West if Republican Clubs supporters had transferred to SDLP in that constituency as well . |
| 10 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 11 | In addition you could ask the parents of the bride and groom about their marriages . |
| 12 | For example , in P1/T1–T4 we could retain only the rows marked with an asterisk in addition to the objective row , without any loss of information . |
| 13 | He answered earnestly and in words I could understand . |
| 14 | Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying . |
| 15 | This delineation of labourism is ideal-typical ; in practice it could exhibit contradictory tendencies . |
| 16 | In daylight he could have used a shop window as a mirror to watch the pharmacist 's across the road but lit windows were no use and who stands staring into dark ones ? |
| 17 | Brazil is a eventually in Mexico I could become a Mexican , way up to a Mexico , how do we get to a Mexico , jump to a Mexico ! |
| 18 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 19 | With Wagner in mind he could say it now . |
| 20 | It is not known where he learned his trade , but if it was not in Raunds it could have been in Cambridge , where a Thomas Grumbold ( d . |
| 21 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 22 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 23 | If I stayed in Athens I could go to places from there , I thought . |
| 24 | Accordingly , depending upon whether a bank holder of a bill of lading sued in the United States or in England he could get $500 instead of £100 for loss of the same package or unit of freight . |
| 25 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 26 | In conclusion we could say that , as finding the correct thermal niche is the hallmark of natural selection , the likely midway position of dinosaurs seems a logical outcome . |
| 27 | I agree that in hindsight it could have been clearer |
| 28 | Patsy went , using his work for the insurance company as a pretext , for in truth he could take no more of the hypocrisy . |
| 29 | But you see , if I 'd have gone in Wilkinsons I could have bought another this morning . |
| 30 | By presenting the choices starkly on public spending and increases in taxation he could get the answers he wants . |