Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the fact that another property developer , and star of the bull market of the Nineties Mountleigh , had gone into receivership and that administrators have been appointed to the Canary Wharf project it could rank as one of the understatements of the 1992 financial year . |
| 2 | Maître Binoche estimates it could have fetched FFr300 million had it been allowed out . |
| 3 | They came and prodded me and conferred , and then Dr Maxwell said I could go home . |
| 4 | At Oxford Crown court Mr Lanaghan denied he could have been mistaken in identifying Spencer . |
| 5 | Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story ; Shirley MacLaine examined sex after 40 and death at any age in Terms of Endearment ; Bette Midler proved you could hate and loathe your best friend in Beaches ; and Juliet Stevenson screamed the fury of love lost — and the disappointment of love regained — in Truly , Madly , Deeply . |
| 6 | If Mr Gorbachev believed he could acquire a breathing space through repression , during which the economy could be transformed by unpopular but necessary reforms , he might be willing to pay the price , but this would reverse his strategy of the past three years . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Roirbak said we could eat in here ? ’ |
| 8 | Mr Robinson admitted he could understand the frustration of fans in the light of the Linnets ' run of four successive defeats before today 's visit of Kettering Town to Canal Street . |
| 9 | Mr Sugar said he would be applying for a ‘ security of costs ’ ruling from the courts to force Mr Venables to prove he could afford to pay costs of this order . |
| 10 | Mr Robson fears he could die before a bed is available . |
| 11 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 12 | The sheer weight of dicta amassed was intimidating , but Mr. Ashworth conceded he could find no authority actually binding on me . |
| 13 | Uncle Bob said he could remember , from when they were boys , Tom had never been keen on cats . |
| 14 | What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Mukhametshin claims he could finance the whole lot from cash flow and is trying to tempt investors with the promise of juicy returns : the forecast return on capital on his ice-cream factory ranges from 360% to almost 850% , depending on what sort of ice-cream it produces . |
| 16 | The sisters exchanged glances , then Miss Belle and Miss Florence nodded towards their elder sister and guide , and she , turning to Agnes said , ‘ Mrs Bretton-Fawcett said we could get five pounds of anyone 's money for it . |
| 17 | On Mrs Marie Moon one could write a fresh drama every morning in black lace , sequined taffeta , white watered-silk with one huge splash of crimson at the waist . |
| 18 | After skiing the last section of the Vallee Blanche Nigel decided we could avoid a walk into Chamonix by skiing down a snow chute filled with avalanche debris . |
| 19 | Witness this peroration : ‘ Evidently Freya Stark is aimed at a readership unfamiliar with the Stark oeuvre and Mrs Izzard reckoned she could get away with any number of unjust distortions . |
| 20 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
| 21 | Mrs Baines said she could see the buildings burning 100 yards from the house . |
| 22 | Neverthless the Republicans decided she was a dangerous , radical feminist , even though as she travelled round the country with him Mrs Clinton showed she could stand by her man as effectively as any woman . |
| 23 | Mrs O'Hara said she could see a gunman kneeling in the hallway firing into the room , and another gunman further along the hall . |
| 24 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 25 | Bertha Cohen wished she could believe that that was the explanation , but in her heart she knew it was n't . |
| 26 | Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second . |
| 27 | The following afternoon , Reynard Lennon admitted he could go no further in this research and it was time to report to Jahsaxa . |
| 28 | In September Julie decided she could stand it no longer and returned home . |
| 29 | TORY MP Tim Devlin admits he could lose his marginal seat . |
| 30 | Chief executive June Roberts said it could mean an extra £80 on pensioners ' bills . |