Example sentences of "[pron] could cope with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with . |
| 2 | I could cope with an Army Corps of Germans . |
| 3 | ‘ As much as you thought I could cope with . |
| 4 | But if there was a blunder I could cope with it . |
| 5 | Well at one time , I was able to cope with that , but eventually I found myself taking three and four weeks to do it , y'know , with time wasting for going out trying to score and stuff like this , just to feel as though I could cope with the job . |
| 6 | I did n't think I could cope with another night in that flat all alone . ’ |
| 7 | Carl is 15 months now , and he 's fine , so I 'm sure I could cope with another baby . |
| 8 | Anyway , by the time I joined Valiant as Phil 's right hand man I felt I could cope with most situations . |
| 9 | I do n't think I could cope with the memory of you sitting in my study weeping . ’ |
| 10 | but I think I could cope with breasts without a bra . |
| 11 | I do n't think I could cope with your heartbreak . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't think I could cope with all that smouldering passion — not to mention the possessiveness . ’ |
| 13 | I said , oh I do n't think I could cope with that ! |
| 14 | I do n't like bull fights , erm I do n't think I , I could cope with one of them |
| 15 | I know I 've said that and you said oh no I could cope with your mum and |
| 16 | This guarantees total inadequacy , but the pay-off is ( a ) the knowledge that nobody could cope with all fifteen , and that therefore the failure does not reflect badly on him personally , and ( b ) some self-righteousness at how hard he is trying to contribute , and resentment at those who are not ‘ pulling their weight . |
| 17 | The inclusion in the Land Cruise trainset of seven first-class sleeping cars , coupled to InterCity 's insistence that every passenger should have a window seat , stretched the West Highlander formation to sixteen vehicles — too long for the platforms at King 's Cross which could cope with only fourteen — so by default the Friday evening departure was written down to St Pancras , picking up at St Albans and Derby . |
| 18 | Could a Council be established which could cope with the demands made upon it by a multitude of members ? |
| 19 | Theodora wondered whether it was a room which could cope with the demands of the modern world . |
| 20 | Even if a computer was available which could cope with the load , the system has serious difficulties not least of which is coverage . |
| 21 | Britain , for example , has been left with political institutions which were ideally suited to the protection of private property and enterprise and which could cope with limited government and restricted public power in which the executive was dominant . |
| 22 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 23 | Motherhood was more than she could cope with . |
| 24 | She was n't at all sure she could cope with him and a band of strangers , all the way to Titan , through the depths of hyperspace where there 's no escape from your companions . |
| 25 | She had been afraid that his suggestion , when it came , would have been too fraught with the unknown his room , perhaps , or else , God knows , a naked nightclub but as for the cinema , she could cope with that . |
| 26 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 27 | She 'd thought she could cope with her fears . |
| 28 | She could cope with that , whereas his icy controlled quietness petrified her . |
| 29 | But Jessamy did n't think she could cope with spending even half an hour with Julius . |
| 30 | She could cope with the Jonathans of this world . |