Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] could [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 2 | He knew that although Ulthuan could probably win a war in the bleak northern lands , the cost would be so high that the Elf realms would never recover . |
| 3 | Pedrosa waves his arms about in the air furiously when asked if Mota could ever set a world record . |
| 4 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 5 | Smith 's Industries at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , make the plane 's cockpit diplays , management are understood to feel there may be more work not less because Britain could now play a bigger part in the project . |
| 6 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 7 | When Flagstad could not manage a high C in the 1952 Furtwängler recording of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sang it instead . |
| 8 | As Edward could hardly understand a word the man said either , that did not surprise him . |
| 9 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 10 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 11 | A law of nature was the last word ; and just as God could not break a law of logic ( by making something both red and green all over , for example ) , so it was felt that He could not break a law of nature . |