Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( )
2 When she were talking to us Aunty Mary you could hear some Yorkshire accent .
3 Further , since the previous examination record of the majority of our students was the minimum required , we could anticipate few B.Ed candidates — even if students ' response to what we had to offer proved to be very satisfactory indeed .
4 But they were beaten back by thick smoke before they could reach young Sandy Lee .
5 If the Soviet Union believed it could exploit possible NATO weakness at the intermediate nuclear level , the risks for it from aggression would be less .
6 He could see Big Tom Fish hunched over a large plate of food , and he recalled afresh , in agonizing detail , the broad naked back and the strong buttocks working between his mother 's legs .
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