Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be glad if Miss Marsden could spare me a few moments . ’ |
| 2 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Cunningham asked if you could spare him a few minutes before leaving the hotel . |
| 4 | Well if you could spare us a few moments , we 'd be most grateful , your , it 's for a new series we 're contemplating , A Day in the Afterlife . |
| 5 | ‘ He is fully committed for several weeks ahead , but he could spare you a few minutes at the end of his list one day . ’ |
| 6 | Bowe , they say , who does impressions of Stevie Wonder , Bill Cosby and Ronald Reagan that could earn him a different sort of starring role on the Vegas Strip , has yet to prove that he 's more than a clever impersonator of a heavyweight champion . |
| 7 | By looking at the links between sea level rise and volcanic activity over the last million years , he hopes to be able to predict whether our heating of the atmosphere today could earn us a fierce and violent reprimand from the planet in years to come . |
| 8 | He slammed a fist up at her as if the force of his gesture could throw her the last five feet , and screamed at her although he knew that she could n't hear . |
| 9 | He could make him a valuable new member of the gang , with Nancy as his assistant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But his ability to avoid any obvious stereotype could make him an attractive candidate for Labour members worried that the leadership election is being orchestrated to Mr Smith 's advantage . |
| 12 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 13 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 14 | I think we ought to , if we could make it a certain day of the week , something to do with U V A. |
| 15 | The less official he could make it the better . |
| 16 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 17 | Deregulation could make it an exciting prospect , as Mary Fagan reports |
| 18 | Does anyone know of a signwriter who could paint me a decent menu board for my catering trailer ? |
| 19 | ‘ I could paint you an exact copy , ’ I said gently , ‘ if you admit that you would like it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You could dye them the same colour , ’ said Betty . |
| 21 | To allow large numbers of Southerners into their highly regimented society could unravel everything the Stalinist regime there has created in the last forty years . |
| 22 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 23 | At 53 he edged Waqar low to Inzamam at slip , and the Pakistanis were not easily persuaded that neither umpire could consider it a clean catch . |
| 24 | Jack 's magnificent start with the Eagles could win him a dramatic recall for Australia in next month 's World Cup final against Great Britain . |
| 25 | ‘ You could give yourself a nasty cut on those shoulder blades , ’ Arthur said , suddenly remembering the whole girl subject after his respite from it and feeling unusually breezy . |
| 26 | I wonder if you could give me a quick ( and hopefully positive ) decision ? |
| 27 | I wonder if you could give me a quick ( and hopefully positive ) decision ? |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Well I , I took the liberty of the Lord Lieutenant 's appointed me to something called the Sussex Rural Options Land Bank and I brought you a copy of the leaflet , having notice of your question and I did ask the officer who deals with this in the Sussex Rural Community Council if he could give me the latest score on housing I thought that the news was bad from what he had said , but having said that , I mean every effort is being made to deal with the issues you raise in this council which is now chaired by Peter . |
| 30 | Only 130,000 of 700,000 eligible disabled people in Britain use their mobility allowance to run a vehicle which could give them a new life through personal transport . |