Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their faces had been beaten off to make sure nobody could later link them to a concentration camp , or even their homes , in Germany . |
| 2 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 3 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 4 | In fact the number of possibilities is even greater than this , for one could also express it as |
| 5 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 6 | Indeed , one could almost accuse him of being too modest for not making rather more of the claim that applied stylistics may " lead to the fuller integration of language and literature in the curriculum of both L1 and L2 situations " ( Vol. 4 , p.81 ) . |
| 7 | One could never accuse it of that . |
| 8 | He then gave me a slight shock by lapsing into a brief sort of reverie , and saying that if one had ever felt like ‘ murdering someone ’ , one could never do anything about it . |
| 9 | At least no one could ever accuse him of lacking decency and moral courage . |
| 10 | ‘ At least no one could ever accuse you of being a fortune-hunter , ’ he said with a ghost of a smile . |
| 11 | ‘ No one could ever accuse you of not persisting . |
| 12 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 13 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |