Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it . |
| 2 | Most importantly , Rose had lost motivation to help herself and achieve progress , and no one around her could help restore it . |
| 3 | Artificial holts could help tempt them back , much like a garden bird box . |
| 4 | Artificial holts could help tempt them back , much like a garden bird box |
| 5 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 6 | Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil . |
| 7 | The London Titfords made silk in Spitalfields ; and a draper cousin could help sell it for them . |
| 8 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 9 | The head of a training department for a big bank in the City of London recently asked me if I could help find him suitable conference locations . |
| 10 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 11 | We were looking for anybody who could help fill it . |