Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | I could point to quite a few leaders about whom I am not enthusiastic but I will refrain from naming them , and concentrate on those I like . |
2 | He switched on the radio and learned that temperatures of minus 6 were expected tonight ; the forecaster believed they were due for a ‘ cold snap ’ which could last at least a week . |
3 | The term " Unusual Attitudes " is taken to mean that the aircraft has adopted an attitude which could result in either a stall , spin or spiral dive . |
4 | But now only the grim reality of a rebuilding task , which could take at least a generation , occupies the minds of those struggling to put their newly independent countries on their feet . |
5 | Sighing , she looked around the elegant hallway , drastic cuts would have to be made but she could manage with just a cook and a maid , the others would have to be paid off . |
6 | This time she could drink with scarcely a tremor . |
7 | Non-swimmers wore coloured bathing hats ; those who could swim at least a length wore white hats , those who had passed the bronze medal wore black caps , and a very few wore silver for the silver medal . |
8 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
9 | From here we could see for quite a distance , but there was no sign of the hunt , nor any sound . |
10 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |