Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could [vb infin] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she could persuade Charles Harvey to take her to Andrew Neil before they went out to dinner . |
| 2 | If only we could persuade George Bush to look back at Iraq to see what has been left behind . |
| 3 | Inside they could hear Mr O'Donnell , the vet , playing his accordion but nobody was singing . |
| 4 | He went into the monitoring room , and as the door swung open she could see Mr. Kegan and Miss Hervey talking over the banks of monitor screens , and she stepped back out of their sight . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 6 | Maybe she could phone Aunt Maureen and tell her what had been happening . |
| 7 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 8 | Certainly no-one could accuse Janet Dobson of being afraid of work . |