Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 2 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 3 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 4 | She could scarcely believe it all . |
| 5 | If you could just give me those descriptions again to refresh my memory ? ’ |
| 6 | Regeneration 's still a major problem in Leeds , if I could just give you some some rough and ready figures chairman . |
| 7 | Then you could just pinpoint them all |
| 8 | ‘ If you could just get me some warm water I — ’ |
| 9 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 10 | ‘ The snag was , she found it impossible to accept that anyone could possibly find her less than addictive . |
| 11 | But she could hardly tell him that ! |
| 12 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 13 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 14 | I would take well you could still take her some . |
| 15 | We could also give you some coal . |
| 16 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 17 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 18 | ‘ So she met someone who could seemingly give her all the things I was n't able to . ’ |
| 19 | We could even get you both on , as if you were both tuned in by chance . |
| 20 | You could well place us both in peril . ’ |
| 21 | I could unquestionably get him several different shades of hairs from this house . |
| 22 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 23 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |
| 24 | She was continuously moulting as she grew her feathers , and however many times I hoovered I could never get it all . |
| 25 | Absolutely , you could , you could actually work it all out while you 're waiting for the course . |