Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pron] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 2 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 3 | Were my feelings not so strong I could not bring myself to say goodbye . ’ |
| 4 | First its propeller blade broke off after it hit a rock , then it got caught in currents so strong it could n't move in a straight line . |
| 5 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 6 | His voice was so low she could scarcely catch the words . |
| 7 | His voice was so low she could hardly hear him . |
| 8 | He got his head so low you could practically see the cleft in his buttocks . |
| 9 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 10 | Söll is so warm-hearted you could almost get a tan from the welcome . |
| 11 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 12 | and you 're not commissioned communicating professionally or particularly politely if you do n't ring up that day or the next day anybody understands if you have a puncture a road accident a client crashes but there 's nothing to actually stop you ringing up the next day and saying so sorry you could n't make it |
| 13 | So sorry you could n't schmooze your way into our fabbo album launch shindig , dear reader ( see pages 28 and 29 for celeb-filled fun ) , but hey ! |
| 14 | James Grierson was stalking around his house in a fit of temper so acute he could almost taste it . |
| 15 | ‘ It was so loud you could n't ignore it . |
| 16 | He felt so weak he could hardly stand , but he knew that if he stayed where he was , he would die . |
| 17 | Cheshire social services chief David Whitehead said Siobhan was so weak she could hardly walk . |
| 18 | ‘ I want you to know we did n't use any of this nonsense ’ , Koch protested between the titters ; ‘ … you would sort of start down that road and get so self-conscious you could n't do it . ’ |
| 19 | It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was . |
| 20 | ‘ I did get some interviews but I would be so paralysed I could n't do myself justice . |
| 21 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 22 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 23 | The change in her way of living was so vast she could scarcely credit it ; she would stop , sometimes , with the polishing rag in her hand , under the watchful eye of the parakeet , and say aloud : ‘ But this can never be me , not really me ! |
| 24 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 25 | Now when somebody else stood up here if somebody had totally dried up or been so nervous they could n't do it what would you have felt . |
| 26 | When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups . |
| 27 | The day Richard started teaching , he was so nervous he could n't eat breakfast . |
| 28 | But I was so nervous I could n't get it out properly . |
| 29 | Poor love , he was so fair-skinned he could n't tolerate much sun and Majorca was sunnier and hotter than ever this season , according to him . |
| 30 | The picture itself was so dark he could only see the image of Emily in the glass , naked and moving wildly , her buttocks pumping urgently against him . |