Example sentences of "[pron] could buy " in BNC.

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1 When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself .
2 I wish I could buy them myself , & had hoped to ; but the Speaker rejection makes it impracticable .
3 Next door to that I could buy carrot cake ice-cream .
4 Anyway the second school favoured scarlet cross-overs , the lady in charge directing me to a local wool shop where I could buy the yarn and a ( hand knitting ) pattern .
5 I 'd know what I could buy , how long it would take me to save for something … a new dress or whatever . ’
6 I could buy this club and fire you . ’
7 I could look after Hepzibah , I could buy Druid 's Bottom , and we could all live there together .
8 How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him .
9 Is there a book I could buy or
10 That 's why he made things so I could buy the boy out .
11 I wish I could buy us a house — just a little place , big enough for you and me , where we could be all by ourselves . ’
12 ‘ And while I 'm there , I could buy some winter vests for the boys as well — and Josh needs a new shirt for best … .
13 I could buy up this hotel tomorrow .
14 I could buy up the whole block .
15 I apologized for my behaviour ( you know how it is : a few drinks , a few laughs , you step out of line ) , and asked if I could buy her lunch some time .
16 I was going to ask him for money , there 's a business I could buy my way into , an honest one this time , I 've checked it out .
17 ‘ I was going to ask : if I make a retum trip in one day , no hotel , I could buy an airline ticket for cash and give any name I like-could n't I ? ’
18 ‘ Surely there must be somewhere I could buy some .
19 alternative , I could buy that pink sheeting from John Lewis
20 I simply phoned them and erm they put , they put it up so that I could buy things on Access that I could get , well I mean those were the days when I knew that you could sell a house like
21 I could I could buy at the moment
22 I could buy my way out could n't I ?
23 I could buy it straight
24 I could buy anyway Shel !
25 he thinks that he can buy I could buy this standing space because I 'm a businessman and I 've got lots of money .
26 Now I could buy
27 They would be unable to compete with larger companies which could buy and sell in bulk , and take advantage of advanced technology .
28 This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it .
29 Provided she could buy anything she wanted , when she wanted — and it never occurred to her to do otherwise — Louise was happy .
30 ‘ There is a phone in number for viewers to air their opinions and he called in and said he was furious about what had happened to this poor woman and wanted to give her the money so she could buy presents for the boys .
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