Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John — fit and well — said : ‘ The clinic 's doctors just tried to fool me I was dying so they could make money . ’ |
| 2 | Highlands and Islands Enterprise estimated yesterday it could mean £20 million a year until 1999 . |
| 3 | When she partially woke again she could smell honeysuckle and new-mown grass in the churchyard . |
| 4 | Looking closely you could see traces of fine reddish curls at her temples . |
| 5 | Taken to an extreme , driving and flight simulators aim to duplicate the real thing exactly and if used repetitively they could assess changes due to daily rhythms . |
| 6 | I quite like somewhere I could get uhum a cover for the bed to match . |
| 7 | He went into the monitoring room , and as the door swung open she could see Mr. Kegan and Miss Hervey talking over the banks of monitor screens , and she stepped back out of their sight . |
| 8 | In addition the chargee is not obliged to refrain from exercising his rights merely because by doing so he could avoid loss to the company nor does failure to exercise them when the security is declining in value constitute a breach of any duty that he may owe to the company . |
| 9 | Both elections were taken as further proof that if Socialists , Communists and Liberals worked together they could defeat fascism . |
| 10 | If only Marc would go away she could reassure Peter that she would n't let him down . |
| 11 | I thought well you could use dustbin lids instead of sending of ten pounds to get two of their pieces of |
| 12 | Following a nationwide survey of 1,042 punters commissioned by the Betting Office Licensees Association and conducted by Gallup , Tom Kelly , director general of BOLA , said : ‘ If the Government move quickly we could have evening opening in the summer . |
| 13 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |