Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] could [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 2 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 3 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 4 | I too could use the equivalent of a cup of hot , sweet tea . |
| 5 | But nobody else could find the address . |
| 6 | There were many women who thought they knew him intimately , and each believed that she alone could unravel the knot of his heart . |
| 7 | She alone could see the sorrow in it , and it reminded her of her experience . |
| 8 | It 's hot in the kitchen , Bacon 's burning , now she 's used the same sort of thing , it 's hot in the kitchen Bacon 's burning , you too could use the play on words for the idea of bacon and burning and cooking and sizzling if you want to be really gruesome . |
| 9 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 10 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 11 | They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents . |
| 12 | However , it is likely that they too could use the channel by bouncing their calls off the continental shelves which slope down into it . |
| 13 | He only could unlock the gate |
| 14 | He only could unlock the gate |
| 15 | The Abyssinians , as Monophysites , owed allegiance to the Patriarch of Alexandria ; he alone could appoint the Abuna who was head of their Church . |
| 16 | By using a federal regulation rather than the independent counsel statute ( which required a panel of judges to choose the appointee ) , Barr also ensured that he alone could choose the investigator . |
| 17 | Her eyes flashed , she was ready with the explanation before anyone else could make the accusation . |
| 18 | He felt a strange exhilaration that he too could play the game of these city slickers , to repay evil for evil as the cruel features of the god had warned . |
| 19 | Hitch understood and bolted for the door , picking the receiver up with infinite care so that he too could hear the voice on the other end of the line . |
| 20 | He never could grasp the logic that to see Trevor it was obvious to the teacher that his own eyes must have been open . ’ |
| 21 | But Kate knew she was being told she was right , that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils and that before anything else could happen the devils must be taken out of him . |